Fuze | Director David Mackenzie on Directing This Spring’s Twistiest Thriller

Fuze | Director David Mackenzie on directing this spring’s twistiest thriller

Relay and Hell Or High Water director David Mackenzie tells us about his new thriller, Fuze, starring Aaron-Taylor Johnson and Theo James. “Could it blow at any minute?” a construction worker nervously asks Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Major Will Tranter. “Theoretically, yes,” Tranter casually replies, gazing through his binoculars at the topic of conversation: a gigantic, unexploded bomb.  Having been dropped on London during a raid in World War II, …

Fuze review – popcorn fair that fizzles out fairly quickly

A group of bank robbers attempt to cash in on a bomb threat in David Mackenzie's tepid thriller. For those not intimately familiar with the topographical and historical minutiae of the UK, the relatively blasé way in which the British public react to the inciting event of David Mackenzie’s Fuze might seem a bit odd. An unexploded World War Two bomb is discovered on a building site in central London, and it’s a hassle more than anything, causing …

David Mackenzie And Gugu Mbatha-Raw On Fuze — “A pure cinematic experience”

The lean sub-two-hour genre film can be difficult to find these days, but filmmaker David Mackenzie has carved out a career through those types of movies. From modern western Hell or High Water (2016) to surveillance thriller Relay (2024), he's kept audiences on the edge of their seat—something that continues with his latest project, Fuze.…