Ambulance Movie Storyline. William Sharp is a war veteran who desperately needs $231,000 for his wife’s surgery. He reaches out to Danny, his adoptive brother and a life-long criminal, who talks him into taking part in a $32 million bank heist. The robbery goes wrong when they shoot an LAPD officer. The pair are soon on the run in an ambulance with an EMT and the dying officer as their hostages.
Ambulance is a 2022 American heist action thriller film directed and produced by Michael Bay. A co-production between New Republic Pictures, Project X Entertainment, and Bay Films, it is based on the 2005 Danish film of the same name by Laurits Munch-Petersen and Lars Andreas Pedersen. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Eiza González and follows two adoptive siblings (Gyllenhaal and Abdul-Mateen) turned bank robbers who hijack an ambulance and take two first responders hostage.
Ambulance, first announced in 2015, went through several crew changes years before it entered production. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic halted Bay’s plans to shoot a different film so he agreed to come on board to direct. Filming took place in the midst of the pandemic in downtown Los Angeles with cinematographer Roberto De Angelis. During post-production, editing was completed by Pietro Scalia and the musical score was composed by Lorne Balfe.
The film premiered in Paris, France, on March 20, 2022, and was theatrically released in the United States by Universal Pictures on April 8. The movie underperformed at the box office, grossing approximately $51 million worldwide against a $40 million production budget. While the story drew some criticism, the film received praise for Bay’s direction and the action sequences.[2]
About the Story
War veteran Will Sharp, desperately in need of $231,000 for his wife Amy’s surgery, reaches out to Danny, his adoptive brother and a life-long criminal, who talks him into taking part in a $32 million bank heist. Though initially hesitant, Will agrees after Danny reaffirms that he is doing this for Amy. The plan nearly succeeds until Officer Zach Parker, who goes to the bank to ask out a bank teller, discovers the situation and is held hostage by Danny. A shootout then occurs between one of the heist members and Zach’s partner Officer Mark.
The Special Investigation Section (SIS) of the LAPD arrives and shoots and kills the whole crew except Will and Danny, who retreat towards the garage. Zach attempts to escape and during a scuffle between him and Danny, he is accidentally shot by Will. Leaving Zach to die, the brothers attempt to exit through the back of the building but find it surrounded by police. They then hijack an ambulance with EMT Cam Thompson on board, who is treating the injured Zach. After a chase that leads them into an alleyway, Cam makes a desperate attempt to escape using a fire extinguisher, but decides to stay when Zach starts flatlining.
SIS Captain Monroe arrives on the scene and deploys helicopters to chase after the ambulance. Cam gets Danny to help her use a defibrillator and Will to transfer some of his blood to Zach, much to his confusion and frustration. Danny then calls Papi, one of his adoptive father’s criminal friends, for help losing the police in exchange for $8 million. When Cam stops Danny from shooting Mark, who has been chasing them, Danny threatens to throw her off the ambulance. The police are forced to retreat when it is discovered that Monroe’s dog is inside Mark’s police vehicle. FBI Agent Anson Clark, a past friend of Danny’s, is put on the case.
As Zach begins to bleed out, Cam, with Will’s assistance, begins to perform surgery on Zach, whose spleen ruptures. Despite her inexperience, Cam successfully performs the surgery. Cam tries to convince Will to stop Danny, to no avail. Monroe, unaware of the surgery’s success, moves forward with the operation and prepares to snipe Will and Danny without negotiating for Cam’s life. Clark calls Cam and tells her to get down. Cam, wanting to save Zach’s life, alerts Will and Danny about the snipers. Danny, having had enough of Cam, decides to shoot her, but Will intervenes, causing the brothers to fight about their predicament. They later partially reconcile and listen to music together to ease the tension.
In the Los Angeles River, helicopters chase the ambulance as Danny shoots at them. Will and Danny then drive on the opposite lane of the interstate, creating multiple accidents. On Papi’s orders, his son, Roberto, drives an empty ambulance towards the police after filling it with C-4 explosives and deploys machine guns on separate cars to cause additional damage, which ends up killing Monroe in the crossfire. Mark chases down Roberto and kills him after a scuffle, leaving Papi angry and distraught. Will and Danny escape to Papi’s hideout, where Papi demands the brothers to leave Zach and Cam with them to deal with; Will refuses to cooperate and teams up with Danny to kill Papi and his crew. In the chaos, Cam accidentally shoots Will using Zach’s gun.
Ambulance (2022)
Directed by: Michael Bay
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen, Eiza González, Garret Dillahunt, Keir O’Donnell, Moses Ingram, Colin Woodell as EMT Scott, Jesse Garcia, Wale Folarin, Jessica Capshaw
Screenplay by: Chris Fedak
Production Design by: Karen Frick
Cinematography by: Roberto De Angelis
Film Editing by: Pietro Scalia
Costume Design by: Lisa Lovaas
Set Decoration by: Lucila Caro, Raquel Tarbet
Art Direction by: Jace Ford
Music by: Lorne Balfe
MPAA Rating: R for intense violence, bloody images and language throughout.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: April 8, 2022
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