FUZE

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NOTE: This spoiler was submitted by Alex

At a construction site in Paddington, England, the digging crew finds an unexploded bomb in the rubble. Law enforcement is notified, including Chief Superintendent Zuzana Greenfield (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), who leads the operation from headquarters, and Major Will Tranter (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), who is the lead on site – he guesses that the bomb is from World War II. All of the homes and apartments nearby are evacuated, including Rahim (Elham Elsas), who lives with his elderly parents – his father is in a wheelchair. In one of the apartments, a group of men do not evacuate and wait in the dark, including Yorgos “George” Karalis (Theo James) and X (Sam Worthington). They plan to use the cover of the evacuation to pull off a bank robbery since the area is completely abandoned.

The robbery crew dresses in maintenance clothes and goes down into the building’s basement and begin drilling through the walls. Since alarms are going off everywhere due to the evacuation, the bank alarms do not attract attention. At the dig site, Tranter begins carefully excavating the bomb from the mud, where he discovers that the bomb is on a timed fuse, he can even hear the ticking. Using a large magnet, the bomb squad is able to stop the timer, and then go about building a wall around the blast area to try to contain the bomb if it were to explode. One of the members of Tranter’s team, Corporal Martin (Alexander Arnold), discovers that the bomb has a shiny silver area on its surface, which is odd if the bomb is indeed as old as World War II. Meanwhile, the robbers enter the bank from underground and are able to empty out safety deposit boxes, taking lots of cash and jewelry – Karalis finds something specific that he was looking for inside a brown bag.

When the bomb begins ticking again, Tranter takes a drill and very slowly begins working on the bomb. Meanwhile, at headquarters, the police are able to see that the bank has activity going on by looking at heat signatures. Greenfield orders the bomb unit to stop their work, much to Tranter’s chagrin, and sends a police car to check out the bank. One of the officers spots Karalis in an alley, and he flees on foot while radioing to the crew to evacuate. The ticking stops and the bomb explodes, Tranter and his team are injured, but are far enough away from the blast that no one is killed. With the blast serving as a major distraction, the robbing crew uses drones to fly the stolen loot out of the area. The police give chase to the robbers in their cars and on foot, but they escape.

Arnold tells Tranter that he’s convinced there’s no way the bomb is from World War II, and Tranter doesn’t seem convinced, but agrees to tell Greenfield about the theory and advises her to test the bomb residue for some kind of chemical signature. The police discover the holes drilled into the walls and realize the bank was robbed during the bomb evacuation – Greenfield orders police checkpoints set up to stop them from getting too far. The robbers are stopped in their van at a police checkpoint, but use their fake maintenance paperwork to pass through. They then change their car’s license plate and escape the city limits, breaking out into cheers that they have succeeded, then drive to a small house outside of town.

Tranter’s superiors arrive, frustrated that he didn’t report the bomb anomaly earlier – they say he has a history of insubordination. Meanwhile, Rahim and his parents attempt to reenter their home to get their luggage, since they have a flight later that day. Rahim tells the police at the scene which building he is in – realizing its the building Greenfield believes the robbers were based in, they bring him over to make a statement. Greenfield interviews them, and Rahim tells her that men came with papers from the landlords and said they needed his keys – he gave them to him and they never returned them. His father told him not to give the keys, but Rahim thought the papers were real and official. At their safe house, the robbers go through the haul from the robbery, and Karalis reveals that the brown bag contains uncut diamonds that he says could be worth thirty million.

Karalis steps out claiming to need to make a phone call, and just then several other men with guns run in, attacking, shooting at, and tying up the remaining members of the robbery crew. The new guys work for Karalis, who has betrayed his gang – one of the new men, Karalis’s cousin Ludo (Dragos Bucur), pours a drink to celebrate their success. Karalis says he knew where the diamonds were because they belonged to a man he used to work for, who he used to smuggle diamonds from but screwed him over. Karalis’s cousin funded the operation and demands fifty percent of all the loot – Karalis is angry because he wanted the diamonds for himself, that was the deal. Angry, Ludo smashes one of the diamonds, and realizes they are not real. Horrified, Karalis examines them closely and realizes it’s true. He swears he doesn’t know where the real stones are, but Ludo breaks his hand with a wrench and his men stuff Karalis in the trunk of their car before leaving.

Forensics on the bomb reveal that it was not from World War II, but from the British army itself. Rahim goes to the top of his building to have a cigarette and pulls a brown bag out from inside a pipe, then cuts open his suitcase and hides the contents inside. Meanwhile, X manages to untie himself and free the other members of the crew, though Y (Shaun Mason) dies of his gunshot wound. X leads the remaining gang to follow Ludo and Karalis’s car. In the trunk, Karalis sends a message for help and his location to an unknown phone number. At the station, Greenfield discovers that the lease on the flat is owned by Karalis’s uncle and finds Karalis’s criminal record. Arnold contacts Greenfield after discovering their own equipment has been tampered with.

X’s car catches up to Ludo’s, and he rams them, managing to overpower them and take one of their guns, which he uses to kill them. X and his gang take Karalis out of the trunk, and he pleads with them but X takes a plastic bag and pulls it over his head, smothering him. As Karalis loses air, a bullet blows through X’s neck, revealed to have been fired by Tranter, saving Karalis, who flees and goes to a hotel to shower and change, then to an airport. Arnold goes to Greenfield in person and says that Tranter has had psychological problems, staying in war zones when he didn’t need to. Looking at the board, Arnold recognizes the photo of Rahim – he was Tranter’s interpreter for whom he arranged safe passage to England.

Greenfield takes a team to Tranter’s house, where they discover bomb making supplies and article’s about the death toll from rockets in Afghanistan. Tranter, Karalis, and Rahim all separately fly to Istanbul, where they meet up. Karalis thanks Tranter for saving his life, and Tranter reveals he set the bomb off once the cops were all over Karalis to create a distraction. They present the real diamonds to a wealthy buyer, who affirms they are real and offers an amount of money that Karalis at first first rejects until they come to him with a higher number. The three divide the money in an equal three way split – thirty million each – and say goodbye to each other.

In a flashback to years before, Karalis was in Afghanistan harvesting diamonds, while Tranter and Rahim were working for the military. Karalis is abducted by armed men when Tranter and Rahim come upon them and realize they are surrounded by IED explosives in the ground – Tranter has stepped on one and cannot move. One of the cars hits an IED and explodes, giving Karalis an opportunity to flee. He meets Tranter and explains that he was there getting diamonds but his boss has turned on him. Both wanting to live, they agree to work together. Rahim provides cover fire while Tranter coaches Karalis through disarming the IED he is on top off, and the three escape before one last grenade goes off.

Post-script reveals Karalis opened a nature reserve on top of potential diamond mining land, Rahim starts his own company, and Tranter donates 25 million to a charity that defuses unexploded ordinance.

An unexploded bomb is discovered at a construction site, and during the evacuation Karalis (Theo James) leads a gang to use the chaos of the evacuation to rob a bank, including a safety deposit box full of diamonds. Major Will Tranter (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) is brought in to defuse and oversee the bomb squad, but it turns out he himself arranged the bomb there and is in cahoots with Karalis. The two of them along with a man named Rahim (Elham Elsas) are revealed to be behind the heist - they escape and meet in Istanbul where they sell the diamonds and split the profits three ways, thirty million each. A final flashback reveals that the three met in Afghanistan, where Rahim was Tranter's interpreter. Karalis was there harvesting diamonds, and when his employer backstabbed him, Tranter helped rescue him, and Karalis is able to defuse an IED that Tranter has stepped on. This is how the three became connected and hatched their plan to steal the diamonds from Karalis's former employer.