Ambulance (★★☆☆☆), supposed criminal mastermind Danny Sharp (Jake Gyllenhaal) is asked if he has a plan. Among others, his adopted bro Will (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), lured into another of Danny’s ill-conceived schemes, demands to know, “What’s the plan?!”Will’s question has the ring of an inside joke aimed at director Michael Bay for this hectic adaptation of the 2005 Danish drama Ambulancen.
Nearly twice as long as the film that inspired it, Bay’s movie, written by Prodigal Son co-creator Chris Fedak, definitely proceeds like a caper devoid of a plan.
And given that someone here sarcastically quotes Sean Connery in Bay’s 1996 hit The Rock, inside jokes clearly aren’t off-limits.The fact that Michael Bay movies exist in the world of this Michael Bay movie is, in itself, the movie’s best joke.
We might imagine the characters onscreen stuck in a loop living in or watching a Bay-directed cavalcade of guns, cars, chases, and explosions on repeat — just like anyone watching Ambulance.The car crash parade kicks off in promising, if sappily earnest, fashion with a tense ridealong to a trauma scene with L.A.
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