What’s It About
Over one day across the streets of L.A., three lives will change forever. Decorated veteran Will Sharp (Emmy winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Candyman, The Matrix Resurrections), desperate for money to cover his wife’s medical bills, asks for help from the one person he knows he shouldn’t—his adoptive brother Danny (Oscar® nominee Jake Gyllenhaal, Zodiac, Spider-Man: Far From Home). A charismatic career criminal, Danny instead offers him a score: the biggest bank heist in Los Angeles history: $32 million. With his wife’s survival on the line, Will can’t say no. But when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate brothers hijack an ambulance with a wounded cop clinging to life and ace EMT Cam Thompson (Eiza González, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, Baby Driver) onboard. In a high-speed pursuit that never stops, Will and Danny must evade a massive, city-wide law enforcement response, keep their hostages alive, and somehow try not to kill each other, all while executing the most insane escape L.A. has ever seen.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
This has to be one of the dumbest action-filled and tense bank robbery films I’ve seen in a long time – and I loved it. The movie starts by trying to give you some insight into a few main characters while giving the premise purpose. Will, played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, is in dire need of money. His wife needs a costly surgery, plus she just had a baby, and bills are piling up. Danny (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a hustler that convinces Will to help him with one last job. The two cops that create the unexpected confusion are there because one of the officers likes a teller at the bank so his partner forces him to go and talk to her. The ambulance driver was shown as a caring person with empathy for all that entered her vehicle. You find out later that it’s just an act, and for her, it’s just a job. Other characters have expanded arcs, but why? Ultimately, you don’t care because the bulk of Ambulance is a police chase. So what if Danny and Will are brothers. Who cares if Will needs money for his family. All I cared about was the bank robbery. Once that happened, everything else was moot. The story became all about getting away in an ambulance (DUH). Everything they tried to build as far as story, characters, and purpose were thrown away. Show me the chase. That’s the only thing this film is about, and it was interesting enough to make me wonder how it would end. Ambulance will not win any significant awards, but it will definitely make a lot of people’s guilty pleasures list.
OUR RATING – A DEFIBRILLATED 6
MEDIA
- Genre – Comic Book
- Street date
- Digital – April 29TH, 2022.
- DVD/Blu-Ray/4K – June 14th, 2022
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 2.35:1
- Sound – English Dolby Atmos, English Dolby TrueHD 7.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
- Subtitles – English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras
- Pedal to the Metal (HD, 10 min)
- A Tribute to First Responders (HD, 7 min)
- Bayhem (HD, 6 min)
- Finding Ambulance (HD, 6 min)
- Aerial Assault (HD, 5 min)
- Chase Capital of the World (HD, 4 min)