Line #88 Film/Ambulance


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3	->''"I'm sorry, brother. Sorry I brought you into this."''
4	-->--'''Danny Sharp'''
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6	''Ambulance'' is a 2022 American [[ActionGenre Action]] {{Thriller}} film directed and co-produced by Creator/MichaelBay and written by Chris Fedak, based on the 2005 Danish film ''Ambulancen'' by Laurits Munch-Petersen and Lars Andreas Pedersen. The film stars Creator/JakeGyllenhaal, Creator/YahyaAbdulMateenII, and Creator/EizaGonzalez, with Creator/GarretDillahunt, Creator/AMartinez, and Creator/MosesIngram also appearing.
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8	William Sharp, a decorated Marine, faces financial hurdles as he searches both for work and more importantly the money needed to help his ailing wife's cancer. In desperation, he turns to his adopted brother Danny, a career bank robber like his father who just happens to have a heist in place that will more than cover Will's expenses. Naturally, despite a carefully executed plan, things go OffTheRails in a big way.
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10	Unexpected interference leads to a mass shoot-out which leaves most of the crew sans the brothers dead and a police officer being critically wounded. In desperate need of escape, they hijack the ambulance carrying that same officer and one of the paramedics. What starts as the biggest heist the brothers ever pulled becomes a massive police chase through the streets of L.A. as Will and Danny try to escape with both their score and their lives...
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12	It was released in theatres in the United States on April 8, 2022, by Creator/UniversalPictures.
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14	'''Previews:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NU-STboFeI&t=1s Official Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFWOyZNHjX8 Official Trailer 2]].
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16	!!''Ambulance'' contains examples of:
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18	* ABNegative: Will is O negative, making him an universal donor. This allows him to transfuse some of his blood to Officer Zach.
19	* ActorAllusion: Ex-convict-turned-actor Victor Gojcaj appears in a minor role, a ShoutOut to Creator/TonyScott (a clear influence on ''Ambulance''), whose films ''Film/TheTakingOfPelhamOneTwoThree'' and ''{{Film/Unstoppable}}'' Gojcaj appeared in.
20	* AdoptionDiss: Papi calls Will Danny's "fake brother". Will doesn't even react to the insult. Danny doesn't either... initially. [[spoiler:While he doesn't kill Papi ''for'' that remark, it is the source of his PreMortemOneLiner.]]
21	-->'''Danny:''' "He's not my fake brother. He's my REAL brother."
22	* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Danny. Even though he had to be put down by Will, he was still his brother.]]
23	* AskAStupidQuestion: Anson is flabbergasted when his therapist asks him if people still rob banks.
24	-->'''Anson:''' Kyle, do we have to pay for the dumb questions, or are these ones free of charge?
25	* AttackDrone: In a variation, Papi's ambush involves tossing a low-rider with a remote-controlled [[GatlingGood minigun]] at the police.
26	* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Danny Sharp becomes this towards the end of the film when after the stress of the police chase, having to kill Papi and his crew, and having to get his brother to the hospital [[AllForNothing ensuring he'll be arrested after everything]]. Then he finds out that it was Cam, who Will risked his life to save, was the one who shot him by accident causing to just completely snap and possibly suicidal by the way he [[SuicideByCop intended to kill Cam which would cause the police to kill him.]]]]
27	* BadassDriver:
28	** Will is proven one by the events of the film, thanks to his army experience, his previous criminal activities, or both.
29	** Randazzo is [[InformedAbility built up]] as one, but the heist goes so wrong so fast that he [[WeHardlyKnewYe never gets a chance to show the audience]].
30	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Danny is dead, and Will is very likely going to spend the foreseeable future in maximum security prison. But Zach lives, Will gets his wife the money she needs and then some, and Cam has a renewed passion for her job. And may very well give med school another shot.]]
31	* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Randazzo goes out this way during the initial heist; doubles as a ShoutOut to ''{{Film/Heat}}'', where the getaway driver dies in the same fashion.]]
32	* CainAndAbel: Danny and Will Sharp, respectively. [[spoiler:The roles are reversed in the end when Will kills Danny to protect Cam.]]
33	* ChaseScene: Most of the movie has the brothers in the titular ambulance pursued across LA by the police.
34	* ChekhovsGun: Officer Mark's handgun, which ends up in the ambulance undiscovered under his partner's body for over an hour of runtime before [[spoiler:Cam shoots Will with it by accident.]]
35	* ConsummateProfessional: Cam is an extremely good paramedic; commanding and empathetic in the moment to help the victim but equally refuses to follow up once they are taken to the hospital. She views her job as making sure they get to the ER alive and in the best condition possible, but beyond that is not her concern (while seemingly callous, it's sometimes a necessity to keep your emotional sanity doing such a job). The hostage situation she finds herself in requires her to spend more than 20 minutes with a patient.
36	* CopKiller: Danny is (rightfully) worried about accidentally killing cops. [[spoiler:His gangster associates are not.]] When their pursuers at one point (mistakenly) believe the officer in the back of their ambulance is dead, [[spoiler:and then again after the attack that kills Monroe,]] it escalates very quickly into the...
37	* CopKillerManhunt:
38	** The chase is so hot because there's an injured cop in the back of the ambulance, but on the flip side, it also doesn't escalate as long as the other cops think one of their own is still alive in there.
39	** At the end of the chase, [[spoiler:the other cops almost refuse to let Will get medical treatment despite being RIGHT IN FRONT OF A HOSPITAL.]] That's how seriously they take the dead and injured cops over the course of the movie.
40	* TheDitz: Trent, who doesn't seem to understand how bad of an idea it was to wear Birkenstocks to Danny's heist. Later he appears not to understand [[spoiler:the concept of having been run over, although at that point it's probably shock]].
41	* DontTouchItYouIdiot: When Captain Munroe eats a snack with his finger, Dhazghig tells him not to touch her stuff.
42	-->'''Dhazghig:''' Don't lick your finger and touch my shit.
43	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Papi is a ruthless gangster, but he genuinely loves his son Roberto [[spoiler: and is devastated by his death]].
44	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Downplayed in a sense. [[spoiler: During the heist, Randazzo runs over Trent in a panic, much to the horror of “Mel Gibson”, who protests this by stating he (Trent) was at his (Randazzo’s) wedding.]]
45	* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The entire movie is about a day from sunrise to sunset.
46	* ForInconveniencePressOne: Dramatic example with Will's insurance company, illustrating why he's willing to be dragged along on Danny's heist despite trying to distance himself from his family's criminal activities.
47	* FreudianTrio: One on each end of the chase: Danny and Captain Monroe as the Id, Cam and Lieutenant Dhazghig as the Superego, and Will and Anson as the Ego.
48	* FriendlyEnemy: FBI agent Anson Clark, who was a college friend of Danny Sharp. There doesn't seem to be any [[ItsPersonal personal animosity]] between them, their conversations are perfectly amicable, but there is no indication that either one would treat the other any differently than just another fed or another criminal.
49	* FromCamouflageToCriminal: Will was a Marine. Ironically, he became a soldier in the first place to escape the criminal activities of his father and brother.
50	* GunStruggle: When Officer Mark jumps on him, Roberto pulls out a gun. [[spoiler: After a brief struggle, Roberto gets his head blown off.]]
51	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:The fate of Trent during the initial heist.]]
52	* HappilyAdopted: There is no questioning that the Sharp brothers consider themselves such no matter how much the situation is fraying their nerves (especially Danny's). [[spoiler:Danny even takes very personal Papi's AdoptionDiss of Will, making his rebuke of "[Will is] my ''real'' brother!" his PreMortemOneLiner.]]
53	* HealthcareMotivation: Will needs $231,000 to pay for his wife's experimental surgery, which their insurance is refusing to pay for, ultimately causing him to accept the offer to take part in Danny's bank heist.
54	* HeroAntagonist: The police are lawful authority figures trying to stop the protagonists from robbing a bank and save their hostages.
55	* HeroesLoveDogs: Captain Monroe certainly does, so much so that he calls off a chase when he realizes that his dog might be in danger.
56	* HonorBeforeReason:
57	** How the other criminals see Will's insistence on not killing the hostages once they reach safety.
58	** [[spoiler:Danny has no problem with killing the hostages, but when his brother takes a stand against an entire gang, he doesn't hesitate to take his brother's side.]]
59	* ICouldaBeenAContender: Cam attended med school but acquired a problem with pills halfway through. That makes her unusually qualified as a paramedic, but she's angry at herself for screwing up.
60	* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: During the climax, Cam accidentally shoots Will when he comes back to the ambulance, mistaking him for one of Papi's {{Mooks}}.
61	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: During her first scene, Cam has to take care of a little girl who has been in a car accident and was impaled by a fence's iron bar.
62	* ImpostorForgotOneDetail: When Officer Zach comes to the bank during the heist, Danny tries to pose as the bank manager. However, Zach realizes that Danny is not who he says he is when he gives the wrong last name for one of the bank employees.
63	* InterServiceRivalry: Unsurprisingly, LAPD Captain Monroe isn't happy when FBI Agent Anson Clark gets involved in his case, and the two get into an argument as soon as they meet.
64	* ItsPersonal: At first, Papi only helps the Sharp brothers because they promised him money. However, after his son Roberto is killed by a cop, he declares that it has become personal.
65	-->'''Papi:''' You're right, Danny. You're right. It's not business. [[ItsPersonal It is personal]]. My son died for this money.
66	* JustifiedCriminal: Will Sharp. Again, he needs a LOT of money to help his ailing wife.
67	* LackOfEmpathy: During the heist, [[spoiler:Randazzo runs over Trent in a panic, but is seemingly apathetic and orders a protesting “Mel Gibson” to get his money bag while shooting back at the police. While seemingly justified by the heist going awry affecting his judgment, this ultimately earns him a BoomHeadshot.]]
68	* MagicalDefibrillator: When Officer Zach's heart is about to fail, Cam asks Danny for help to restart it with a defibrillator. Although Danny has never done this before, they manage to save him.
69	* MoralityPet: Will is one for his brother Danny. [[spoiler:It doesn't save Danny.]]
70	* NeverTrustATrailer: The first trailer makes it seem like Cam says “You think you’re so tough with that gun” to Danny. In the final film, [[spoiler: she ends up saying to a {{mook}} at Papi’s hideout.]]
71	* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler: Papi's son Roberto gets killed by a cop in the film's last act, leaving his father heartbroken.]] [[spoiler: That said, Papi himself dies not too long after him.]]
72	* PistolWhipping: Before hijacking the ambulance, Danny knocks out Scott by hitting him on the head with the butt of his gun.
73	* PoliceAreUseless:
74	** Played with. The police are the main antagonistic force against the Sharp brothers, keeping them running at every turn, [[spoiler:and the cops ultimately succeed in taking the brothers down]], but at the same time, Captain Monroe has the brothers almost cornered in the Convention Center parking garage, but calls off the chase just because [[ItMakesSenseInContext his dog Nitro is in the car hijacked by Officer Mark]].
75	** Also, the Sharp brothers' heist probably would have gone on bloodless if [[SpannerInTheWorks Officer Zach]] had not stopped by while on the clock to ask a bank teller on a date.
76	* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: When Dhazghig compares Will's driving skills to those of Creator/LewisHamilton, Captain Munroe has no idea who she's talking about and asks if he's a basketball player or something.
77	* RescueEquipmentAttack:
78	** At one point, Cam grabs a fire extinguisher and uses it to spray Danny and Will before she tries to run away from the ambulance.
79	** Towards the end, Cam uses a defibrillator to shock Danny when he threatens her with a gun.
80	* RingerPloy: The extra ambulances.
81	* SacrificialLion:
82	** [[spoiler:Every member of Danny's crew besides Danny and Will]].
83	** [[spoiler:Captain Monroe, eventually.]]
84	* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler: Danny deliberately presents himself to the police to be the bad guy of the whole situation and forces Will to shoot him in the back to protect Cam; Danny even gets to GoOutWithASmile. Will is angry at having to kill his brother, but this and Cam's testimony implies criminal charges will be lighter on him than they otherwise would be]].
85	* ShoutOut:
86	** The main plot serves as an homage to Creator/MichaelMann's ''{{Film/Heat}}'', with the character of Danny in particular taking Neil [=McCauley=]'s neurotic tendencies from that film up to eleven. In addition, some of the score, from Lorne Balfe, seems to reference the tension-building beats of Brian Eno's score for ''Heat'', particularly for the bank robbery.
87	** The aesthetic owes a debt to the later films of Creator/TonyScott; see ActorAllusion.
88	** Many to Bay's own work. Officers Zach and Mark discuss ''Film/TheRock'' and ''Film/BadBoys1995'' in particular.
89	* SpannerInTheWorks: The entire robbery could have gone off without a hitch...if only a cop hadn't decided to pick that moment to take his partner's advice to ask a teller out and their getaway truck hadn't broken down in front of the cop's partner outside.
90	* StraightGay: Anson Clark.
91	* TapOnTheHead: Since he didn't get any anesthetic, Officer Zach wakes up while Cam and Will are operating on him, so Will has to punch him in the face to knock him out. It's surprisingly effective.
92	* ThatWasntARequest: Danny says this when he orders Scott at gunpoint to get out of the ambulance.
93	-->'''Danny:''' That wasn't a question. Get out!
94	* UnconventionalVehicleChase: The premise of the movie. A hijacked ambulance running from a fleet of LAPD squad cars and helicopters.
95	* UncoveringRelationshipStatus: Cam allows her EMT partner Scott to ask her one question a day,. Naturally, his first question is whether she has a boyfriend or not, which doesn't surprises her in the least.
96	* VillainousBreakdown: Danny has a prolonged one that starts midway through the film. As the stress of the situation gets to him, he gets more and more unstable, [[spoiler:finally culminating in trying to force Cam into SuicideByCop.]]
97	* WeUsedToBeFriends: Anson and Danny. Anson even says this line word-for-word when he explains their relationship to Captain Munroe.
98	* WhiteSheep: Will was initially primed to join Danny and their father in continuing the family criminal business, but he joined the marines to get away from that. He is on good terms with Danny, but his wife doesn't want him anywhere near that life again.
99	* YourOtherLeft: When Danny has to help Cam take care of Officer Zach, he gets confused when she instructs him to place the defib pads on Zach's chest.
100	-->'''Cam:''' So, the right chest, left rib. Right there and there.\
101	'''Danny:''' My right or your right?\
102	'''Cam:''' ''His'' right, you fucking moron!

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