Ambulance Review: 6 Ups & 4 Downs

4. It's Michael Bay's Funniest Film In Years

Perhaps the single most pleasant surprise of Ambulance is that it's genuinely really quite funny. Though most of Bay's films feature some level of humour, in recent years it's tended towards the blandly puerile if not outright offensive, particularly in the Transformers films.

Yet Ambulance offers up some of the most entertaining humour in any of Bay's films, certainly standing alongside the deranged laughs in Bad Boys II and Pain and Gain.

Though a lot of the comic relief involves side characters dropping ridiculous one-liners and pop-culture references - like Garrett Dillahunt's overzealous cop Captain Monroe - there's an unexpected self-aware streak running through the film too, with hilariously blatant nods to both Bad Boys and The Rock.

By shifting away from the more lewd and mean-spirited humour of the Transformers films and revelling in the absurdity of its more outlandish sequences - especially a ridiculous trauma surgery scene in the middle of a high-speed chase - Ambulance finds Bay operating in a more wholesome gear where he seems totally in on the joke.