Ambulance
100 words or less:
This is a Michael Bay movie through and through. It brings some good action and explosions together with some over acting and a mediocre plot. The characters aren’t likeable and the concept isn’t fully thought out, but if you go in wanting action you will get action, you won’t be disappointed.
Full Review:
A movie about bank robbing brothers hijacking an ambulance and going on what can only be described as the worlds longest, most costly police chase ever. What’s not to like?
I will save you the trouble right now, if you aren’t a fan of action movies directed by Michael Bay, you will not like this movie. If you do enjoy his movies well, congrats. This movie is for you.
Is it a thought provoking movie? No. Is it necessarily a good movie? Not in the traditional sense, no. The acting seems forced, the plot is a little ridiculous, and overall the concept is a little dumb. But that is something you expect from Michael Bay. You don’t go expecting an award winning movie. You go expecting ludicrous amounts of action and explosions, which this movie supplies for my tiny man brain to just absorb and enjoy.
Now, for some reason, something I did not expect was an about 5 minute long scene of two of the characters sticking their hands inside of a man’s stomach trying to get a bullet out of it, only for the guy’s spleen to explode blood onto both of them. That was disgusting, made me queasy, and was just about enough to make me leave. Much like the scene with the cliff in Midsommar (if you know, you know), I felt this scene did nothing to improve the movie, and was of course just used for the shock value. I did not like this scene one bit and if you don’t think you would and you want to see this movie, just be prepared to look away once they start talking about needing to perform surgery on the cop about halfway through the movie.
Overall, this is just a dumb, turn off your brain, action movie that shouldn’t be taken too seriously, no matter how serious the characters are trying to be.
6.5/10 Flamingos for the boss’s daughter’s Quinceañera.
