Film Review – Ambulance

When we last saw director Michael Bay in action, he collected an enormous amount of money from Netflix to make “6 Underground.” It was meant to be the beginning of a new franchise for the company and Bay, who slipped into autopilot, offering his usual assortment of booms and bangs without putting in a noticeable effort to make something interesting with the basics in superteam cinema. Netflix quickly lost interest in a sequel. To keep busy while he sniffs around another blockbuster project, Bay elects to make “Ambulance,” which isn’t a small project, just minor league to Bay, who’s tasked with constructing a chase film with the bare minimum of character and interiors, endeavoring to make the streets of Los Angeles his battle zone. Bay being Bay, everything is amplified to a headache-inducing degree in “Ambulance,” which finds the helmer digging into his small bag of tricks to make something flashy out of a close-quarters concept (a remake of a 2005 Danish picture), asking viewers to surrender 135 minutes of their lives for a movie that barely has 45 minutes of story to share. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com