Ambulance review – a decent B-movie spoiled by the Michael Bay treatment | Thrillers
An limitless sprawl of a movie set within the limitless sprawl of LA, Michael Bay’s Ambulance is properly over two hours lengthy, and many of the working time is taken up by “a really costly automobile chase”, as one supporting character factors out, whereas cop automobiles carry out slow-mo somersaults from the freeway. A story of two estranged brothers, Danny (a vein-popping Jake Gyllenhaal, giving arguably probably the most Michael Bay efficiency within the historical past of Michael Bay movies) and Will (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), and a heist gone unsuitable, Ambulance relies on a 2005 Danish image of the identical title. The unique clocked in at a lean 76 minutes, however within the fingers of Bay, a long-term advocate of the maxim “extra is extra”, the story is pumped up, steroidal and unwieldy. It’s a pity, as a result of on the core of the movie, partially hid by Bay’s posturing and swagger, is a bracing, slickly executed B-movie – Danny and Will hijack an ambulance: inside is a critically injured cop and a ballsy paramedic (Eiza González); exterior are weapons, explosives and a number of very offended regulation enforcement officers.
