Ambulance Review: 6 Ups & 4 Downs
Michael Bay goes full Michael Bay, and mostly for the better.
Believe it or not, it's been a whole five years since a Michael Bay movie was released in cinemas, with 2017's Transformers: The Last Knight.
Bay's previous film, the woefully disappointing 6 Underground, was a Netflix Original project that ended up reminding many just how much better Bay's films play on the big screen.
His new film Ambulance - a remake of the 2005 Danish thriller of the same name - gets the director back in the multiplexes for what is certainly a movie well worth heading out to the cinema to see.
It won't win the director any new fans and you basically know what you're getting here, but Bay's stylistic audaciousness is awe-inspiring to observe on the biggest screen and loudest sound system you can find, which most home setups sadly can't get close to replicating.
Ambulance may not offer a particularly smart or nuanced plot, but it sees Bay leaning fully into the high-octane absurdity he's best known for, and even unleashing some nifty new filmmaking tricks.
If you're at all a fan of the director or the actors involved, this is an action film absolutely worth watching. But first, here's what Bay doesn't quite get right...