'Michael Bay's 'Ambulance' is too much of everything—and that's the point,' writes Stephanie Zacharek (szacharek)
star as brothers Will and Danny Sharp, two Los Angeles kids who have taken different paths in life. Will, preferring the straight and narrow, joined the Marines. Now he’s out, with a family of his own, but his government has wasted no time in un-thanking him for his service. His wife, Amy , needs life-saving experimental surgery, and insurance won’t cover it. And so Will turns to his estranged brother Danny, who runs a luxury-car outfit—allegedly.
Meanwhile, somewhere else in Michael Bay Land, a woman who is clearly the most gorgeous EMT in Los Angeles is also the best: in an early scene, she capably saves a little girl who has been impaled on a spiky fence post—ouch—after a car crash. Cam Thompson is dedicated to her job, but she also suffers from that classic malaise known as blocked emotions.