Michael Bay, the hyperactive thyroid of action cinema, has taken a scrawny little low-budget Danish film called Ambulancen from 2005, about two criminal brothers who hijack an ambulance, and has put an IV in its tiny arm and pumped it full of radioactive steroids.
The result is a supersized remake which runs one hour longer than the original: an LA action movie with explosions, black-and-white cop cars twirling through the air, muscly guys with big beards and big guns (but no hair) growling menacingly, senior police officers with mirror shades staring grimly off in repose at the skyline, gutsy paramedics – and an adorable big dog which one officer sentimentally takes to work with him in the car. Hysterically kinetic cinematography means that no one can run in one direction without the camera swooping in the opposite direction overhead.
