Ambulance is the new film by Michael Bay and stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Danny Sharp the son of a former criminal in Los Angeles and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as his adopted brother Will a former soldier who needs money for his wife’s surgery so Danny decides to recruit him to help rob a major bank in LA but when the robbery goes wrong and the police go chasing they hijack an Ambulance with a nurse (Eiza Gonzalez) on board to stop things from going from bad to worse.
Ambulance is surprisingly good fun from Bay who has had his ups and downs over his career and this is actually I think one of his better films, though he overdoes the swooping drone shots that I’m sure are designed to make you feel dizzy this doesn’t feel as loud or bombastic as his Transformers sequels did, if anything this feels more like Bay’s early work such as Bad Boys and the Rock and this would sit nicely on that same shelf with those films.
Both Gyllenhaal and Mateen II also play off each other very well and have good chemistry as adopted brothers and I also liked Eiza Gonzalez as the Ambulance nurse caught up in the chase and she holds her own very well against the 2 other actors.
But sadly this movie is far too long, if this film had been 100 to 110 minutes long it would be one of my favourite films of the year so far as for the most part it clips along, doesn’t have a lot of fat on it in terms of its storytelling and the chase scenes are exciting to watch but at 136 minutes it overstays its welcome and starts to feel more like 150 minutes in terms of its editing and near the end I was checking my watch a few times and wanted it to be over.
And so that was Ambulance and this is a good fun movie and one of Bay’s better efforts in the last few years but at 136 minutes it overstays its welcome I’m sorry to say, 2 and a half out of 5.
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