(M) 98 minutes

Fuze is a heist movie with extras. The heist, a bank robbery, takes place in a west London neighbourhood where an unexploded bomb has been discovered on a building site – a narrative tactic that gives us two crises at once, instantly doubling the film’s suspense ratio. And the cast includes not one, but two actors who have been touted as possible James Bonds.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, one of the front-runners in the bid to find the next 007, plays the film’s bomb disposal expert, Major Will Tranter, while Theo James, also on the Bond list, assumes a South African accent as Karalis, the leading bank robber, an expert in diamonds and how to identify and fence them.

The film is directed by a Scot, David Mackenzie, who is not new to heist movies. In 2016, he made Hell or High Water, which was nominated for four Oscars, including best picture. Written by Yellowstone’s Taylor Sheridan, it’s a modern western that combines its bank robberies with an elegiac tribute to the end of the frontier era. It has a lot in common with the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men.