Overview

• David Mackenzie’s London-set thriller debuted Friday at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall, drawing raucous applause at its Gala presentation.
• The story launches with the discovery of an unexploded World War II bomb that clears a city block as a crew targets a nearby bank vault.
• Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays bomb-disposal major Will Tranter, Theo James leads the heist crew as Karalis, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw oversees the police response alongside Sam Worthington in the ensemble.
• Critics praise the film’s energy, performances and genre-blending snap, while noting late-act pacing and structural bumps; IndieWire graded it B- and trade reviews were broadly positive.
• Mackenzie describes the film as entertainment-first with a lean 1 hour 38 minute runtime, and the team signaled interest in continuing the story as the film seeks a U.S. distributor and wider release date.