{"id":22617,"date":"2022-05-17T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=22617"},"modified":"2022-04-28T12:43:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T19:43:56","slug":"nics-flicks-ambulance-nonsensical-nauseating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/05\/17\/nics-flicks-ambulance-nonsensical-nauseating\/","title":{"rendered":"Nic’s Flicks<\/em>: Ambulance<\/em> nonsensical, nauseating"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ambulance<\/i> (2022)
\n1\/4<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never been a fan of Michel Bay\u2019s work but I went to see his newest movie, Ambulance<\/i>, with a open mind, hoping that this may just be one of his better films. Unfortunately, my hopefulness was short lived. This movie\u2014which is based on a Danish movie from 2005\u2014is everything that I hoped it wouldn\u2019t be. Ambulance<\/i> is an overlong, convoluted pile of nonsense that has no respect for logic or even the basic human desire to be entertained.<\/p>\n

Lead actors Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Matteen try their hardest to make this movie watchable and, for the most part, they do a good job. I had no trouble buying their brotherly relationship and both of them were really charming. That\u2019s about all that I can say I enjoyed about the flick, though.<\/p>\n

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Nic’s Flicks<\/em> is a column about movies (photo by Nicolas Ihmels\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ambulance<\/i> made me angry, and I mean flames-coming-out-of-my-hair angry. Let\u2019s talk about the short-on-logic plot of this movie. It\u2019s about an ex-soldier named Will (Abdul-Matteen) who needs money to pay for a life-saving surgery for his wife, so he contacts his estranged criminal brother Danny (Gyllenhall) and asks him for a job. Danny ropes Will into taking part in a logic-defying bank heist which, unsurprisingly, goes terribly wrong.<\/p>\n

This movie expects us to believe that a professional thief, right before attempting to pull off a heist, would add another team member to his crew; it also expects us to believe that a professional thief would walk past a security camera without a ski mask on and smile at the camera, then go upstairs to commit a robbery. (Come on, put on a mask: this movie was filmed in the middle of a pandemic; all we did was wear masks.)<\/p>\n

Also, can we talk about Ambulance<\/i>\u2019s horrendous excuse for cinematography? Much of the movie was shot on drones, which was clearly another bad idea because the whole thing is just two-plus hours of awkward, zoomed-in shots of different parts of LA with the occasional shots of the actors\u2019 faces mixed in there. It was so bad. I mean, not just bad to the point where I couldn\u2019t tell what\u2019s going on: it actually made me feel physically nauseous. So, the cinematography could have used a bit more work.<\/p>\n

I mean, it\u2019s still not as bad as Bay\u2019s last two Transformers<\/i> movies, but Ambulance<\/i> is a non-thrill ride that fans of Bay will love and people who crave real entertainment will hate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ambulance (2022) 1\/4 I\u2019ve never been a fan of Michel Bay\u2019s work but I went to see his newest movie, Ambulance, with a open mind, hoping that this may just be one of his better films. Unfortunately, my hopefulness was short lived. This movie\u2014which is based on a Danish movie from 2005\u2014is everything that I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-may-4-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22618,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617\/revisions\/22618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}