Fuze
Roadside Attractions | Release Date: April 24, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
13
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Original-CinKim HughesApr 24, 2026
Fuze’s denouement is terrific, completely unpredictable and surprisingly funny. It’s as if summer blockbuster season came early. Fuze is… wait for it… a must-see blast. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyApr 24, 2026
In addition to serving up heaping helpings of suspense and action, “Fuze” abounds in twists. Read full review
83
The Film StageJared MobarakSep 12, 2025
No one can be trusted. No one is assured of their survival. We don’t even know who we should be rooting for––beyond the filmmakers themselves, in hopes they stick the landing. Read full review
70
Film ThreatAlex SavelievMay 28, 2026
Set to a pulsing soundtrack, Fuze may not offer much novelty, despite all its rug pulls. But even when the plotting veers into preposterous territory, the pace is so breathless, the actors so committed, that one almost welcomes the familiarity. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesAmy NicholsonApr 24, 2026
Instead of bothering much about dialogue, Fuze is a blueprint of how stress and deference exert themselves upon a workplace. Read full review
70
Screen RantGraeme GuttmannSep 21, 2025
Fuze may not reinvent the wheel, but sometimes all you need is a solid thriller with a hot cast to really give a film the oomph it needs. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterRichard LawsonSep 13, 2025
The film prizes style, but has no higher ambition than to entertain, with an economy of means and no fussy pretension. That’s a noble mission, especially in this time of auteur worship, when so many genre movies seem determined to be something more. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerApr 22, 2026
Fuze doesn’t fly off the rails at its midpoint. It keeps moving forward at a steady clip. By its final stretch, however, the effort to sustain itself becomes more visible, and less quietly confident. Read full review
67
The PlaylistChase HutchinsonSep 13, 2025
Even as Fuze is not a great film, let alone one that will be remembered as a classic new take on the genre, it’s an endlessly watchable one. Read full review
67
IndieWireChristian ZilkoSep 13, 2025
Even with a ridiculously fun premise and more than a few twists, the film never fully regains its initial suspense after the bomb explodes relatively early in the film. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineRoss McIndoeJun 12, 2026
The film is much more interested in the logistics of bomb defusal than any of its characters. Read full review
60
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzApr 22, 2026
It is the kind of screenplay that erases itself with one minute of second thought. Read full review
60
Little White LiesHannah StrongApr 5, 2026
The resulting film is an uneven one – occasional flashes of intrigue are hampered by Fuze​’s strange structure and uncertainty about how funny it wants to be. Although the 90 minute runtime is welcome during an age of ill-advised action film bloat, there’s not much good in a film being short if it’s also largely unremarkable. Read full review
60
EmpireJohn NugentApr 3, 2026
It’s thinner than the paper it’s written on, and full of questionable choices — but in a switch-your-brain-off kind of way, this will adequately activate your heist glands. Light the fuze! Read full review
60
The TimesKevin MaherApr 2, 2026
The twists are many and some predictable, but the mood here is mostly, and unapologetically, guilty-pleasure hokum. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeApr 1, 2026
The screenplay blows it at the close with an absurdly clunky flashback that ties up every loose end with improbable neatness, but this remains a decent class of red-meat actioner for a now underserved audience. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawApr 1, 2026
It all rattles along watchably enough, taking in more locations than just boring old London, though you’ll find your credulity stretched almost to breaking point. Read full review
60
VarietyPeter DebrugeSep 13, 2025
The action is entertaining enough in the moment, but not especially memorable. Read full review
60
Next Best PictureNadia DalimonteSep 13, 2025
The film struggles to find an effective core focus that ties all the narratives together in a cohesive and entertaining manner. Ultimately, Fuze lacks the precision in its writing to make the twists and turns worthwhile. Read full review
50
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisApr 23, 2026
Despite a plot (by Ben Hopkins) bursting with double- and triple- crosses, the movie feels programmatic, its characters bland cogs in a Rube Goldberg machine. Read full review
50
ColliderRoss BonaimeSep 16, 2025
Fuze has the bones of a great idea, and one that does seem like a great fit for Mackenzie, given his past work. But Hopkins’ script is too generic an action exercise, from its bland plot to its nothing characters, that it’s hard to find anything to truly care about. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonSep 13, 2025
Seeking to be a nonstop adrenaline jolt, Fuze starts off strongly but eventually fizzles, its high-octane ambitions soon becoming mechanical and rote. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesApr 23, 2026
Exuding direct-to-Redbox energy, Fuze has enough plot twists to make it watchable. You’re just not liable to remember much of it afterwards. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeSep 13, 2025
While there’s something engaging in how the film takes us to a place so, literally, far from where we started, how we get there is not as entertaining or propulsive as it should be with anonymously staged action, easy-to-spot twists and a crucial lack of suspense. Read full review
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