Ambulance
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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.
What critics thought
Critics split fairly cleanly between those who found Bay's relentless kinetic energy a feature and those who found it a bug — with the direction getting more credit than the script or performances. Audiences responded warmer than critics, and a vocal minority argued it represents Bay's most character-driven work, a claim many reviewers would find hard to take seriously given the broad consensus that the story is derivative and the acting uneven.
“tribute to the emergency services (which involves blowing several of them up) is noisy, messy and frequently absurd — yet still somehow his most gleefully entertaining effort in at least a decade”
John Nugent·Empire
“decently premised B-movie stretched out to an interminable 136 minutes”
Frank Scheck·The Hollywood Reporter
“Bay's addiction to confusion and pointlessness as operating visual narrative principles keeps this from being in any way pleasurable”
Robert Abele·TheWrap
“Ambulance has everything ... except actors giving a decent performance as believable characters in a workable script”
Peter Bradshaw·The Guardian
“It all ends up pretty much where you expect it will, but the actors do a good job of seething and emoting under pressure, and Gyllenhaal does a volatile, charming sociopath thing that isn't as annoying as it might be”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
Genres
Action, Crime, Drama
Cast & Crew
Michael BayDirector
Jake GyllenhaalDanny Sharp
Yahya Abdul-Mateen IIWill Sharp
Eiza GonzálezCam Thompson
Garret DillahuntCaptain Monroe
Keir O'DonnellFBI Agent Anson Clark
Jackson WhiteOfficer Zach
Olivia StambouliahLieutenant Dhazghig
Moses IngramAmy Sharp
Colin WoodellEMT Scott
Cedric SandersOfficer Mark
A MartinezPapi
Jesse GarciaRoberto
Lorne BalfeComposer
Chris FedakWriter
Roberto De AngelisCinematographyAmbulance
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.
What critics thought
Critics split fairly cleanly between those who found Bay's relentless kinetic energy a feature and those who found it a bug — with the direction getting more credit than the script or performances. Audiences responded warmer than critics, and a vocal minority argued it represents Bay's most character-driven work, a claim many reviewers would find hard to take seriously given the broad consensus that the story is derivative and the acting uneven.
“tribute to the emergency services (which involves blowing several of them up) is noisy, messy and frequently absurd — yet still somehow his most gleefully entertaining effort in at least a decade”
John Nugent·Empire
“decently premised B-movie stretched out to an interminable 136 minutes”
Frank Scheck·The Hollywood Reporter
“Bay's addiction to confusion and pointlessness as operating visual narrative principles keeps this from being in any way pleasurable”
Robert Abele·TheWrap
“Ambulance has everything ... except actors giving a decent performance as believable characters in a workable script”
Peter Bradshaw·The Guardian
“It all ends up pretty much where you expect it will, but the actors do a good job of seething and emoting under pressure, and Gyllenhaal does a volatile, charming sociopath thing that isn't as annoying as it might be”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
Genres
Action, Crime, Drama
Cast & Crew
Michael BayDirectorJake GyllenhaalDanny SharpYahya Abdul-Mateen IIWill SharpEiza GonzálezCam ThompsonGarret DillahuntCaptain MonroeKeir O'DonnellFBI Agent Anson ClarkJackson WhiteOfficer ZachOlivia StambouliahLieutenant DhazghigMoses IngramAmy SharpColin WoodellEMT ScottCedric SandersOfficer MarkA MartinezPapiJesse GarciaRobertoLorne BalfeComposerChris FedakWriterRoberto De AngelisCinematographyStream
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