“F*ckin’ ell, it’s tickin’,” says a soldier in David Mackenzie ’s new film. Indeed, it’s all about to go off in this exquisitely plotted piece of pulp, a high-energy action-thriller that, thanks to the vicissitudes of film distribution these days, follows hard on the theatrical release of Mackenzie’s last film, Relay , which premiered in Toronto this last year. Relay , starring Riz Ahmed, was also a great genre movie, if a little on the long side. There is no fat, however, on the ensemble-driven Fuze , a much more commercial prospect and a surprisingly sophisticated exercise in misdirection, in which bombshell explodes after bombshell.

In fact, it literally begins with an actual bombshell. As the camera flies over contemporary London, it comes to settle on a building site in P

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