Michael Bay’s eye-popping Ambulance makes Marvel movies look like dumpster juice
follows two brothers, the do-gooder ex-Marine Will and the erratic thief Danny . In need of cash for his wife’s experimental cancer surgery, Will approaches Danny requesting a loan. Danny counters with a high-reward bank job that starts … like, right now.
Naturally, Will and Danny’s robbery goes bad – like, Michael Mann-level bad. With the cops circling, the brothers hijack an ambulance, which is manned by jaded paramedic Cam and carrying the gravely wounded cop who the siblings sorta-accidentally shot earlier. So begins a city-wide chase that ropes in typical Bay-movie functionaries plus a few head-slapping surprises, including the best use of Christopher Cross’sis, perversely enough, what its director considers a “small” project.
Certainly, the movie is completely absurd. Every character involved would die within seconds if the action took place in the “real world.” There’s a bit involving Danny’s drug-cartel buddies that turns them into Bond-level supervillains and, for some reason, L.A.‘s notoriously horrible traffic is never an issue. But’s world – really, any Bay-verse – does not need to operate by the rules of our reality if it maintains a consistent handle on its own ludicrous tone.
Finally: Can someone please just give Gyllenhaal an Oscar already? The actor has been defying expectations for a long while now, and in Bay’s bloody hands he gives a gloriously unhinged performance – all raging charm and venomous sociopathy. Ifcan squeak into the Academy’s pantheon by a social-media campaign, then surely the Internet’s Bay-hive can pull its ownPlan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter.
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