Fuze

An unexploded wartime bomb surfaces under a busy construction site in central London, and everything after that is arithmetic: how many people, how many streets, how little time. The film builds itself around a mass evacuation run by military and police against a clock nobody controls, which makes for a procedural thriller of a very particular kind, where competence and panic are the two competing forces and the threat never moves an inch. The city itself becomes the pressure, all density and traffic and people who will not leave.

Anyone who enjoys tightly wound real-time thrillers, disaster procedurals and the grim professionalism of people doing an unthinkable job will be well served. It runs lean, keeps the tension mechanical rather than emotional, and trusts the countdown to do the work. Expect logistics played as suspense, with the dread compounding as the perimeter grows. A strong choice for a taut weeknight watch when you want your stakes concrete and your pacing merciless.