AMBULANCE
[FILM]
All guns blazing: Jake Gyllenhaal as bankrobber Danny.
★★★
OUT NOW / CERT 15 136 MINS
DIRECTOR Michael Bay
CAST Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Eiza González, Jackson White
PLOT Needing money for his wife’s surgery, Will (Abdul-Mateen II) reluctantly agrees to rob a bank with his adoptive brother, Danny (Gyllenhaal). When their getaway goes wrong, they hijack an ambulance, holding a wounded cop (White) and a paramedic (González) hostage; a high-speed police chase on the streets of LA ensues.
MICHAEL BAY ‘GOING small’ is everyone else’s ‘going absolutely bloody massive’. Ambulance, the action specialist’s 15th feature film, was trumpeted as a return to the director’s roots, shot rapidly in the summer of 2020 on a fraction of the budget he usually plays with. His roots, of course, were hardly subtle affairs, and neither is Ambulance — but it’s the closest to his career high, The Rock, that he’s been in years.