The most disappointing thing about Fuze - and there are several - is that its director, David Mackenzie, helmed the superb 2016 crime drama, Hell or High Water. How did the same person succumb to such dull mediocrity a decade later? Despite the star studded cast featuring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Sam Worthington, this urban London thriller, where a newly discovered bomb from WW2 evacuates large portion of the city, never quite comes together. Even the explosion (I'm not really giving much away here, btw) comes across as half-assed flatulence.
The movie has the feel, and the setting, of a post-modern Guy Ritchie movie. There are twists and double crosses, and a flashback after the final act that reveals something - which, if you find the entire narrative dry and pointless, is actually nothing at all. Regardless, no twist or revelation can save this blandness from its most unforgivable sin: for all the gunfire and explosions its poster promises, the entire thing is, simply, boring as fuck. Such a shame.
☆1/2
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