Fuze has hit theatres in India.
World could do with fewer White dudes thinking Brown men need saving.
So, it is rather unfortunate that, at a time when this part of the world can do with some Western sensitivity, Afghanistan is little more than a generic playground for this heist film.
That said, Fuze doesn’t really want to, or give us time to, dwell on the thin politics it covers itself in. This fast-moving caper sweeping across London, with some good-looking men of honour and dishonour in feverish action, can be enjoyable despite it.
The broad storyline is that a suspected World War II bomb has been found at a construction site, and quickly tagged by the Army explosives disposal expert played by Taylor-Johnson as a “1,000 pounder.”
This is Westminster, and no TV crews around going mad, which means that the top police officer (a wasted Mbatha-Raw) can just issue orders, and the public responds quietly and obediently to a mass evacuation.
The moment the neighbourhood is emptied though, and the power is…