Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Eiza Gonzalez. Screenplay by Chris Fedak, based on Ambulancen by Laurits Much-Petersen and Lars Andreas Pedersen. Directed by Michael Bay. $40 million budget. Running time: 136 minutes.
Typical. You wait ages to see a film about two brothers coming into conflict and then two turn up in the same day.
The first was Morbius. This was the second, selected because the trailer had looked fun. And besides I could walk out of the first, cross over the hallway in the cinema and sit down half way through the adverts for this.
136 minutes later, I stumble from the cinema, screaming "MEDIC!", numb and shell-shocked, my ears ringing from the endless bursts of gunfire, huge explosions, and countless hi-octane super-car crashes, and feeling queazy from the gravity-defying, relentless drone-aided camera moves that screams "This is a MICHAEL BAY MOVIE!!!!"
The plot sees two brothers, one adopted, the sons of a legendary psychotic bank robber, who grown up to be on both sides of the tracks, one, Yahya is an ex-marine needs money for his wife's experimental surgery, the other is Jake, a chip off the old block of his dad and a bank robber with over 38 successful heists; who convinces his ex-marine brother to join him and his crew of bad-ass bank blaggers on a bank job that'll net them all 36 million dollars!
Unfortunately, it doesn't go well, thanks to a police ambush which sees the brothers hijack an Ambulance taking a seriously injured policeman to hospital. Cue a non stop car chase that gets bigger, badder and madder the longer this nitro-fuelled movie goes on!
This has a great cast, looks good and up to a point, is good. Bay knows, better than most, how to mount an action sequence. Add to that some truly impressive in camera moves and tricks and you're in from a relentless ride. I thoroughly enjoyed this until the third act when the film switches gear and introduces a new force to the movie which leaves an ugly taste in the mouth and turns the film into something it wasn't previously. Ignoring some plot holes and too many questions, this was an exhilarating ride that smashed the stale taste of Morbius out of my mind.
7/10
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