Ambulance (2022): Movie Review

                                                                            

Jim's Review

Michael Bay is back with a high octane chase of an ambulance all over L.A. Danny (Jake Gyllehaal) has a heist that could help is adoptive bother Will Sharp ( Yahya Abdul- Mateen II) in so many ways, one is which to a save his dying some who needs experimental drug to save his life.

The plan is set to rob a bank of 16 million dollars. Everything is going well until a police officer Zach (Jackson White) wants to ask out the teller while his partner Marc (Cedric Sanders) waits outside.

Danny answers the door and he refuses to leave so he is invited in and next thing you know he is in the middle of heist with guns pointing at him!

Paramedic Cam Thompson (Eiza Gonzalez) is starting her day and very quickly gets involved in trying to save Zach's life!

What follows is not a just any ordinary chase scene yet a mutli-layered storyline that will have you saying " what about the chasing the ambulance!"

If you are listen carefully you will hear reference to the movies The Rock (1996) and classic line by John Mason (Sean Connery) in the film and Bad Boys (1995) direct by Michael Bay

The chase go all over the L.A. in streets in buildings and near transforms into Fast and Furious.

There lots of crashes of course and one amazing scene which uses technology and 3 Doctors giving advice! (enough revealed)

The climatic end will bring the story to gift wrap and powerful close to family and relationships and money

9 out of 10 stars

About movie

Over one day across the streets of L.A., three lives will change forever. In this breakneck thriller from director-producer Michael Bay, decorated veteran Will Sharp (Emmy winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Candyman, The Matrix Resurrections), desperate for money to cover his wife’s medical bills, asks for help from the one person he knows he shouldn’t—his adoptive brother Danny (Oscar® nominee Jake Gyllenhaal, Zodiac, Spider-Man: Far From Home). A charismatic career criminal, Danny instead offers him a score: the biggest bank heist in Los Angeles history: $32 million. With his wife’s survival on the line, Will can’t say no. But when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate brothers hijack an ambulance with a wounded cop clinging to life and ace EMT Cam Thompson (Eiza González, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, Baby Driver) onboard. In a high-speed pursuit that never stops, Will and Danny must evade a massive, city-wide law enforcement response, keep their hostages alive, and somehow try not to kill each other, all while executing the most insane escape L.A. has ever seen. Ambulance is produced by Michael Bay, p.g.a., Bradley J. Fischer, p.g.a. (Zodiac, Shutter Island) for New Republic Pictures, James Vanderbilt (Zodiac, 2022’s Scream) and William Sherak (Ready or Not, 2022’s Scream) for Project X, and Oscar® nominee Ian Bryce (Transformers franchise, Saving Private Ryan). The screenplay is by Chris Fedak (Prodigal Son, Chuck), based on the original story and screenplay for the 2005 Danish thriller Ambulancen by Laurits Munch-Petersen and Lars Andreas Pedersen.