3.0 out of 5 star rating<\/span> <\/span> <\/div> <\/div> On paper, the premise of Michael Bay\u2019s latest action flick sounds pretty much indestructible: after a botched heist, two bank-robbing brothers make a getaway in a stolen ambulance while a paramedic desperately attempts to keep a police officer alive in the back of the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Although technically a remake of a 2005 Danish film of the same name, Bay claims he deliberately avoided watching that version in a bid to make Ambulance as distinct as possible \u2013 and indeed nobody could deny that the Transformers filmmaker\u2019s stamp is all over this rather relentless film, which proves great entertainment value in spite of a multitude of flaws.<\/p>\n
At the film\u2019s opening, we\u2019re introduced to Will (Yahya Abdul Mateen II) an Afghanistan war veteran desperate to earn enough money to cover his wife\u2019s dearly expensive medical bills. Despite being warned against it, Will\u2019s first port of call is to check in with his unpredictable bank robber brother Danny (Jake Gyllenhaal), whose family he was adopted by as a young child and with whom he still shares something of a fraternal relationship, even if their lives have taken them down very different paths. Naturally, this visit has barely begun before Will is roped into taking part in a huge heist \u2013 with the promise of major cash rewards when all goes according to plan.<\/p>\n