Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- 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
Recommendations
- 80
The Telegraph
Speeding vehicles are clunked and donked into one another with xylophonic zeal, while the camera snakes and tears between them faster than seems physically possible. I mean it as a compliment when I say there are entire sequences here which look as if they might have been shot by a monkey in a jetpack. - 80
Little White Lies
Ambulance is just delightfully unhinged in its experiment to see how much carnage can be caused by just one car chase. - 70
Screen Daily
For all its showy excesses, sophomoric humour and strained gravitas, Ambulance is often riveting, the film speeding along as recklessly as that ambulance. This popcorn thriller certainly is not brainy, but its escapism has a muscular precision. - 60
Empire
Michael Bay’s 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. - 60
The Independent
Ambulance is a purely aesthetic beast, made for those who like their films to look like they’ve been edited by someone in the middle of a panic attack. - 40
The Guardian
For all the spectacular action set pieces, there’s something silly and tedious that sets in well before the two-hour mark. It flatlines. - 30
TheWrap
Even if you’ve been longing for a more grounded, gritty car-chase movie since the “Fast” franchise left physics behind ages ago, Bay’s addiction to confusion and pointlessness as operating visual/narrative principles keeps even this shoulda-been auto-pocalypse from being in any way pleasurable. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
At a lean, mean 90 minutes or so, Ambulance might have been a guilty pleasure. Instead, it’s the sort of cinematic thrill ride so overstuffed that you can’t wait for it to be over.
