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Fuze movie review: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Sam Worthington heist film is enjoyable at best
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Fuze movie review: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Sam Worthington heist film is enjoyable at best

The Indian Express·Shalini Langer·about 1 month ago
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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.…

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