Fuze, the London-set heist thriller starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Theo James, arrived on Sky Cinema and NOW on Friday, 29 May, giving UK subscribers a new place to watch the film after its cinema run last month.
The timing matters for viewers searching for the film now: it has moved from the big screen into subscription streaming, and that shift puts another Aaron Taylor-Johnson title into the Sky Cinema and NOW catalog. Sky Cinema costs £10 a month on top of a normal TV package, while the Cinema package with NOW is £6.99 a month.
Directed by David Mackenzie, Fuze is set around an unexploded World War II bomb found on a building site in London. The discovery triggers an evacuation order across the local area and brings in a specialist military unit to handle the defusal, while a group of thieves uses the disruption as cover for a major bank robbery.
That criminal plan is sold as perfect, but the film keeps returning to how much harder it is to pull off than it first appears. The chaos that should help the thieves also raises the stakes for everyone else in the area, and the story leans on the pressure created by that overlap rather than on any simple race against time.
Early reaction has been solid rather than euphoric. Rotten Tomatoes listed a 73% approval rating from 102 reviews, with an audience score of 78%. Reviewers singled out the film’s construction as well, with RogerEbert.com calling it twisty, San Jose Mercury News praising it as a hyper-efficient thriller with a gutsy detour in its final act, and Empire Magazine describing it as solidly edgy, with the grittiness and violence of a 1970s heist flick.
For viewers in the UK, the immediate question is not what Fuze is about but whether this is the moment to stream it. The answer is yes: it is on Sky Cinema and NOW now, and there is no indication yet that it is heading elsewhere soon. Other Aaron Taylor-Johnson titles are already spread across Sky Cinema, NOW, Prime Video, Disney+ and Paramount+, but this is the latest one to join the subscription lineup.
