The latest Michael Bay action film Ambulance unfortunately went down in the cinemas. But you can now catch up on the excessive thriller, which makes the Fast & Furious series look old, in the WOW subscription.
If you’re looking for excessive action, Michael Bay is usually the right choice. The director of blockbusters like Transformers and Bad Boys – Tough Guys coined gigantic explosions, wild cutting storms and colour oversaturated images so strongly that his style could easily be parodied at some point.
In recent years, however, Bay has once again pushed his signature to such absurd heights that most action films seem ordinary and unspectacular by comparison. The best proof of this is Bay’s latest blockbuster, which unfortunately flopped in the cinema. You can now stream Ambulance with a subscription on Sky’s streaming service WOW.
Watch another German Ambulance trailer here:
In Ambulance, Michael Bay makes a showdown the complete movie
In the plot of the film, war veteran William Sharp (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and his adopted brother Danny (Jake Gyllenhaal) rob a bank because Will desperately needs $231,000 for his wife’s surgery.
The plan unsurprisingly goes wrong and the brothers escape in a stolen ambulance, which still contains paramedic Cam Thompson (Eiza González). She becomes the brothers’ hostage in a breathless chase through Los Angeles.
The director only needs 20 to 25 minutes for this minimum of story. The rest of the film, which is a good 136 minutes long, is then one drawn-out showdown. What other action blockbusters save for the finale, Bay stages as restless-excessive chaos in excess.
In addition to the ambulance pace, Bay creates an unbelievable stress level of action and tension with an extremely large number of cuts and the frantic, whirling camera.
According to Box Office Mojo, Ambulance, with a budget of 40 million dollars, only earned 51 million dollars worldwide and is thus a heavy flop. But the film doesn’t deserve that, because compared to the last Fast & Furious parts, Ambulance is excessive chaos in the most positive way, which nevertheless doesn’t need cars flying to the moon for incredible setpieces. Just a wacky action visionary like Michael Bay.
