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The new film from maverick director Michael Bay will stand the test of time with audiences despite its lackluster showing at the box office. The action-packed thriller is a remake of a 2005 Dutch film called 'Ambulancen' about brothers who risk it all to pull off a bank robbery to cover some massive medical bills. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II stars as Will, an unemployed veteran with a newborn baby and a wife in need of a costly experimental surgery. He is struggling to find a job that will pay him enough to help his family when he gets a proposition from his half-brother Danny (Jake Gyllenhaal). Without much time to consider the implications of his decision, he agrees to join Danny and his nefarious crew to pull off a bank robbery that could solve all of his problems. As is of...

Confession: I was skeptical when I learned that there was an English-language remake of Gustav Möller's debut film, "The Guilty" ("Den skyldige"), on the way. I caught the original at Austin's Fantastic Fest back in 2018 and it was the Danish submission for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Academy Awards. What I said about "The Guilty" at the time holds just as true in this well-honed update from director Antoine Fuqua ("Training Day") - this is "an outrageously tense and effective movie that hinges entirely on a bravura performance." In the American version, that lead role is covered by Jake Gyllenhaal. He plays Joe Baylor, a police officer who has been taken off the streets and thrown into a 911 call center. We meet Joe on his last night taking calls. He's abr...

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Michael Bay Returns With Action-Packed ‘Ambulance’ (Review)

Jake Gyllenhaal Dials Up A Killer Performance in “The Guilty” (Review)