Film No. 29 (2022) April 5th. 6:45 PM EVENT CINEMAS, VMax 1 Whitfords.
"Does your wife know you rob banks?" (Paramedic Cam asks a pertinent question of her new ally, Will. A question that makes him feel particularly vulnerable).
I have a list of mates who are just going to love AMBULANCE. They won't have to think. They can strap themselves in and escape into a world where their post pandemic thoughts abate for 135 minutes as they go on an adrenaline trip.For them it's the reason they love to go and see big screen cinema. I will text them and recommend it, but there are other friends to whom, if asked, I will suggest that they should not waist their time or money!. It's a loud, chaotic, messy of a film!
Most importantly, if you are a Jake G fan, and I am, definitely don't go to see it. Michael Bay (TRANSFORMERS, ARMAGEDDON) has never paid too much attention to what his actors might be able to bring to the screen. So why, I mean why with a capital W does Michael Bay take a small Danish film AMBULANCEN; a film of 80 minutes, with a big heart, and turn it into a story that, if it were true, would rate as the biggest bank heist, come murder mayhem ever committed in the history of the world?
If the script has a redeeming feature then paramedic Cam Thompson, astutely played by Eiza Gonzalez (a Jolie lookalike), comes away with a beating heart (no pun intended). She may not have entered this chaotic mix-master of chaos as the key player, but she exits as the star. Her transition into a make-shift emergency trauma surgeon(via zoom instruction), is a minor highlight.
Look, Bay has tried to capture the violent choreographic essence of JOHN WICK, the tarmac tenseness of SPEED, the brotherly love trope of WARRIOR and a final stanza reminiscent of any of Angelina Jolie's action efforts. I'm looking for something more original. Plenty of punters will line up for AMBULANCE, popcorn and choc-top in hand, brain (and phone) in flight mode. I hope they love it, I didn't. 5GUMS.
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