Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
Decorated veteran Will Sharp, desperate for money to cover his wife's medical bills, asks for help from his adoptive brother Danny. A charismatic career criminal, Danny instead offers him a score: the biggest bank heist in Los Angeles history: $32 million.
Michael Bay's Ambulance is a maximalist action spectacle built around a fairly generic heist-gone-wrong premise. The plot is derivative and paper-thin, recycling familiar genre beats without much narrative sophistication. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Jake Gyllenhaal deliver energetic performances that elevate the material, with Gyllenhaal in particular going entertainingly over the top. The real standout is the cinematography — Bay's drone-heavy, kinetic camerawork is genuinely distinctive and viscerally effective, producing some of the most technically audacious action photography of recent years. Novelty is low given the remake status and formulaic structure. The ending is rushed and unsatisfying, failing to deliver meaningful payoff to either the character dynamics or the action escalation.