Movie rating:- 🌟🌟🌟
About the movie-
" Ambulance" is a remake of the 2005 Danish film" Ambulancen" with a numerous pivotal differences. Both are about sisters who turn to bank theft to pay for a relation's medical bills. But also, the philanthropist changes from a dying ma to an ailing woman , creating a conflict between career lawless Danny Sharp( Jake Gyllenhaal) and his espoused stock, combat doyen Will( Yahya Abdul- Mateen II). Bay's world is one of good people with principles and bad people without them, indeed when those principles cease to make any logical sense. But it's not about making sense. It's about big, stormy passions.
The antedating pinch goes horribly wrong in the filmland, forcing the brace to commandeer an ambulance as a combination flight vehicle disguise to escape the police cruisers and SWAT vehicles and surveillance exchanges girding the bank. But in Bay's interpretation, the poor tire dying in the reverse of a stolen ambulance isn't an everyday heartthrob, but an injured bull (What, you didn't suppose hallmark idolization would be included in this story?) And while" Ambulance" runs a tight 80 beats," Ambulance" stretches its legs at a tardy 136. That isn't to say there's anything comforting about watching" Ambulance." The film opens with an emotionally manipulative register, censuring drug bills and capsule bottles bathed in the same golden light that surrounds Will's godly woman Amy( Moses Ingram) as she cradles their reanimated child. Amy's cancer opinion pushed the couple's finances to the limit. So Will reluctantly reunites with his flamboyant, rangy family with the intention of espousing capitalist to pay for Amy's forthcoming surgery. But Danny — played by Gyllenhaal as a character who takes Red Bull and cocaine for breakfast every morning — offers him one better Rather than a numerous hundred thousand bones to assuage the insurance companies, how about an$ 8 million payout? That's the bollixed pinch mentioned above that plays out like" Heat" on steroids after introducing the film's third lead, Cam Thompson( Eiza González). In typical action movie character style, Cam is the badass EMT the municipality of Los Angeles has ever seen- suitable, as she puts it," of keeping anyone alive for 20 beats." She's also( surprise, surprise) pessimistic and tense, snapping at her newest mate that it's just a job and doesn't watch what happens to the little girl she just saved from a bloody bus accident where the child was pecked on a piece of wrought iron fencing. Ambulance ” is a peak and no dale, stirring roller coaster lift made all the more unsettling by Bay's hyperactive blasting style. In the first dialogue scenes, the camera kissers around the characters in dramatic low- angle shots. And formerly the action gets going, a combination of erratic drone photography — one of Bay and photographer Robert De Angelis' faves is zipping up the side of a DTLA hutment and also casting back toward the concrete at sickening speed — and wild editing does the trick. sometimes it's hard to tell who's chasing who and in what direction. And burning police motorcars flying in every direction, including directly towards the camera, don't help the readability problem still, the thing about roller coasters is that they are a lot of fun. And if you surrender to the chaos and allow your brain cells to scatter like so important fruit whizzing through the air as the nominal vehicle faves through an LA road request," Ambulance" is a blast — a disorienting, overlong blast, but a blast nonetheless. Bay seems to be having fun, too He stuffs the movie with as multitudinous ridiculous relief moments as anything else, casts his own canine in an absurd gem part, and lets screenwriter Chris Fedak throw in a numerous references to Bay's before films. to the screen in an complete state. The film looks like it bring further than its$ 40 million budget, thanks to the sheer volume of flaming destruction on screen. And as far as Bay is concerned, that means he's held up his end of the bargain.
Summary of this movie:-
Desperate for money to cover his wife's medical bills, decorated veteran Will Sharp enlists the help of his adopted brother Danny. Danny, a charismatic career criminal, offers him the score instead: the biggest bank robbery in Los Angeles history: $32 million.At one point, one of the many redundant characters who have no business in Ambulance mentions with some degree of self-awareness that an expensive car chase is underway. This chase involves the titular ambulance and swarms of police cruisers, often bumping and collapsing like action figures crashing into each other, something the fast-paced editing and dizzying drone cinematography make even more so. You'd expect nothing less from director Michael Bay, but this film's shenanigans pack a little more punch, as there's a solid, engaging 70 minutes in those 134 minutes of over-the-top Bayhem. This is also something that cannot be said about most of Michael Bay's films.This does not mean that excess is inherently bad. Here, though, it's usually at odds with what Michael Bay (alongside screenwriter Chris Fedak, adapting the original international version from Oscar-winning Danish director Laurits Munch-Petersen and Lars Andreas Pedersen) is trying to achieve. Somehow an extra hour was added to this story, and while I'll admit I've never seen the blueprint for this interpretation, it doesn't seem like it's for any game-changing reason. Silly fun is always welcome and will always be welcome, especially from Michael Bay, but Ambulance dances between knowingly ridiculous and charmingly silly to the point of ridiculous attempts to evoke empathy for these characters, and at worst a hackneyed emotional crescendo.When Michael Bay uses a real ambulance setting for creatively ridiculous set-pieces like the EMT (played by Eiza González, who deserves some credit for giving this nonsense some heart and almost making her character's emotional arc), he performs bleeding surgery. cop, as the high-speed chase slows down (the ambulance hijackers have a wounded, gunned down officer as a hostage while fleeing a bank robbery), there's a rush of joy and urgency. This is doubly so considering the reliably intense and unrestrained Jake Gyllenhaal certainly knows how to deliver psychopathic dialogue and behavior in a way that complements Michael Bay's cacophony of destruction. Almost everything inside the real ambulance is a hoot and spectacular to look at, even if it's dumb as rocks.Michael Bay's trademark goofy humor is also present, whether it's the characters shoveling Cheetos while watching the robbers in the ambulance, or the police captain pulling one of the vehicles out because his dog was hiding in the back seat and is in danger. The plot reveals, for example, an FBI agent linked to Jake Gyllenhaal's dirty and prosperous career criminal Danny Sharp, or why EMT Cam Thompson's medical career was derailed, are revealed with straightforward seriousness but don't dwell on it, suggesting that yes, Michael Bay knows that is all. dumb. Not every joke lands, and some of them fall flat, but there are moments where Michael Bay's intentionally dumb humor moves the action forward in imaginative ways.Then there's all that high-octane chase, which begins rather acceptably with the introduction of down-on-his-luck military veteran Will Sharp (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) who feels financially abandoned by his country and is in desperate need of money. health concerns related to his wife Amy (Moses Ingram). After assuring his wife that he has his most wanted brother blocked from his contact list, Will turns around and shows up looking for some money. Danny doesn't do papers and also doesn't trust his current team for the upcoming mission (one of them has earned the nickname Mel Gibson for his younger likeness to give you an idea of the comedy on display here) and decides to rope in. his brother contributed to part of the score.
The goal is to steal from one of LA's biggest and most heavily guarded banks, which is going pretty smoothly until a nearby cop stops by to talk to the bank teller he's crushing on. All hell breaks loose from there, and I don't just mean inside the bank, but primarily in terms of cinematography and spatial awareness. There must be 47 cuts per minute in the ambulance, which is disorienting (moving between parking garages, city streets, responding police and ambulances, and inside the bank itself) until it inevitably finds a way to trap the thieves and rescuers in one place, where the film speeds up and the good he does not let go of the pedal for an hour.While declaring that the ambulance won't stop for anyone, Danny gets madder by the second as his brother Will tries to uphold some moral code in the driver's seat. However, one of the funnest aspects is watching Danny justify his actions because he truly believes that they are the good guys in this story. Unfortunately, even that becomes draining, especially when Michael Bay ends up trying to build up dramatic stakes that don't work when none of these characters deserve an ounce of empathy. It doesn't help that Ambulance devolves into a lot of gunfights once the vehicle more or less takes a back seat in the grand scheme of this self-indulgent spectacle.But someone gets hit in the face with a defibrillator; that counts for something. Ambulance is a frenetic mix of Michael Bay's strengths and worst impulses. Although certain stretches provide absurd thrills, they reaffirm Michael Bay as one of the action genre's most distinctive voices, for better or for worse.
What people think about this movie 🍿:-
(1) Michael Bay has made more pointless movies than useful ones. Studios should stop giving him ridiculous budgets because he'll just spend them smashing as many vehicles as the budget allows, regardless of trying to entertain audiences with anything resembling a decent movie.
(2) The only director who can have a thousand crazy things on the screen at once, and yet the film is boring and lifeless, the story stupid and the plot pointless, and probably the worst melodramatic music ever.
(3) I have no idea why the talented Jake Gyllenhaal would want to be in this mess of a movie. Cardboard cut-out characters speaking painfully stupid dialogue in an underdeveloped plot. His attempt to pay tribute to paramedics, police officers and surgeons is obvious and eye-roll worthy. The funniest scene is the surgery being done in the back of the ambulance while FaceTiming with the surgeon who is on the golf course walking through with them. No wait - maybe it's a paramedic using a hair clip to clamp a spurting artery. No kidding. It is SO bad!
(3 The action scenes in this movie are amazing. They are intense, fast and fun. But the dialogue, oh, the dialogue is terrible. The script makes no sense at all. The arguments and actions taken by both the cops and the thieves are as weak as if they were going to fantasy land I won't mention any specific situation here because I don't want to be labeled as spoilers, but keep in mind that if you are going to see this movie, the script is insane.
(4) Jake Gyllenhaal is perfect for a hyper-high-octane thrill ride like this, great at being crazy, and he's an excellent actor! I'm not usually one for long reviews, except for the occasional one, so I'll say a fair bit in mine. There's shaky camera, screaming, explosions like in other Micheal Bay movies, and an intensity that I think is riveting and worth it. Perfectly cast and the dialogues are solid with quite good humor. I loved Ambulance, it's wildly entertaining for a heist story that hits the spot!
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