Ambulance
Dir: Michael Bay
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Eiza González, Garret Dillahunt
Rating: 2.5/5

A remake of a 2005 Danish film, this Michael Bay-directed actioner goes over the top, exaggerating a medical emergency while trying to pull off a prolonged cop-criminal chase that is rather bloated out of proportion. There’s no reasoning with such contrived excess.  

There’s not much to the script. Decorated veteran Will Sharp (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), desperate for money to cover his wife's medical bills after insurance companies decline his request, asks for help from his adoptive brother Danny(Jake Gyllenhaal), a career criminal, who Sharp’s wife would rather not have him associate with. True to form, Danny instead, offers him a chance to score a chunk out of the biggest bank heist ($32 million) in Los Angeles history. Sharp reluctantly falls into line and the rest is a viscerally pumped-up hijack thriller amounting to cops and robbers chasing all over Los Angeles territory.