2022 Directed by Michael Bay
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 Ian Bryce Laeta Kalogridis James Vanderbilt Brad Fischer Joseph Drake Nathan Kahane William Sherak Rene Ezra Tomas Radoor Mark Moran John Powers Middleton Michael Kase Tracey Nyberg
Швидка допомога, Ātrā palīdzība, Ambulância - Um Dia de Crime, Ambulance. Plan de huida, 亡命救护车, 十字衝鋒車
the fuck was i thinking watching this in an empty Los Angeles theater at 12:45 in the afternoon. this is a very special two-part episode of NCIS: LA and it deserves nothing less than a packed Friday night crowd at the Vista, hootin and hollerin each time Bay namedrops one of his own movies or calls the mayor a “Silver Lake liberal.” Whoever first told Michael Bay about drones gets a +3 to heaven.
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This may not be the peak of Michael Bay's trademark toxicity (6 Underground), nor is it aiming for the level of his mind-numbing blockbuster spectacles, but even in this (relatively) tame register, Ambulance is a blast and a half. Michael Bay goes absolutely apeshit with the drone photography as if he invented it. The camera is consistently taking a step back to swoop in and re-contextualize the chaos. It makes the frantic editing all the more complex and fluid. Jake Gyllenhaal, Eiza González, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II all turn in strong performances. And the action is simply sublime. As usual, it's packed with gnarly pyrotechnics and frazzled continuity. It bursts with movement and collisions and explosions of absurd beauty.…
bay goes back to his bruckheimer action thriller roots and reworks decades of american heist cinema (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, To Live and Die in LA, Heat just to name a few) into a pure, white-knuckle piece of sustained kinetic machinery that frequently feels like a lost tony scott movie we were meant to get somewhere between 2000-2010. not without some minor instances of bay's juvenile humor, generic periphery characters, clumsy lurches into over-sentimentality, etc but in the broad strokes this is without question his most mature work. instead of an evil sense of cruelty or nihilism his deployment of maximalist destruction here actually plays into a larger, expressive symbol: a crumbling, militarized system of steel and…
Everything Bay, Everywhere All At Once. Non-stop corniness, violence and property destruction, insane drone camera work, equally worshipful reverence of meathead cops and cartel guys, Gyllenhaal in full manic weirdo mode, a love letter to movies and the biggest character actor of all: the city of Los Angeles!
Bay combines Heat and Speed, but what if instead of the really tight, cool crew in Heat, we had a collection of the most unlikable oafs and morons imaginable? What if instead of Sandra Bullock driving a bus, we had a hot babe who has to pull a guy's spleen out of his guts at 60 mph?
Despite Bay's cornball jingoism and cop worship, what is this movie really about? It begins…
If GTA 5’s 5 star wanted level was a movie! Ambulance is Michael Bay at his best. A complete utter adrenaline high for 136 minutes filled with some of the best action I’ve seen in a long while. Seriously the ambulance chase scenes are fantastic, Jake Gyllenhaal is a maniac, he’s brilliant for its entirety, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II absolutely shines and Eiza González is magnificent as the paramedic. Honestly I was utterly hooked from the get go, the tension I felt and genuine emotions once it concluded was a complete surprise. The acting, screenplay and overall action was all top class and despite many of Bay’s normal antics, shoddy camera movements that sometimes work sometimes don’t, the car chases and drone shots alone make it a must watch for any action fan. I unashamedly loved it, absolute Bayhem!
