Ambulance
2022
***
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Eiza González, Garret Dillahunt, Keir O'Donnell, Jackson White, Olivia Stambouliah, Moses Ingram, Colin Woodell, Cedric Sanders, A Martinez
Will is forced to ask money from his adoptive criminal brother Danny, who instead enlists him in a bank robbery. When the heist goes horribly wrong, the brothers end up carjacking an ambulance as their getaway vehicle. This remake of a 2005 Danish original is stupid and ridiculous, but probably the most entertaining directorial work in Michael Bay's career. The movie offers non-stop action, but as usual, it's at least 30 minutes too long. Bay's restless and exhausting visual style certainly doesn't make it feel any shorter. To call the camerawork hyperkinetic is a gross understatement. Jake Gyllenhaal's shouty performance seems to pay homage to Nicolas Cage in his heyday.
