Ambulance
Universal Pictures | Release Date: April 8, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 55 Critic Reviews
Positive:
27
Mixed:
21
Negative:
7
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Critic Reviews

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60
IGNRyan LestonJun 2, 2022
Ambulance may often be nonsensical, but it’s also the biggest, boldest action movie of the past year and a spectacularly raucous return to form by director Michael Bay. Read full review
60
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiApr 13, 2022
While the film meanders for a bit and is longer than need be, it maintains a good balance between character dynamics and the thrill of the chase. And with a fantastic cast at its center, audiences will surely be entertained overall. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesJessica KiangApr 12, 2022
Ambulance is not good, exactly. Still it is an enjoyable, oddly inspiring reminder of how many more flavors not-good used to come in, in the olden days, back when we had the luxury of regarding Michael Bay’s brand of adrenalized, lobotomized moviemaking as a menace to blockbuster cinema, rather than — gulp — one of its potential saviors. Read full review
60
TimeStephanie ZacharekApr 8, 2022
For a surprisingly solid stretch, Ambulance is great fun. Read full review
60
ScreenCrushMatt SingerApr 6, 2022
Bay is a dynamic visual storyteller, but he’s much better at the visual component than the actual storytelling. Read full review
60
The New York TimesA.O. ScottApr 6, 2022
Bay’s virtuosic flouting of the laws of physics, probability and narrative coherence is meant to catapult you into a zone of sublimity where melodramatic emotion and adrenalized excitement fuse into a whole new kind of sensation. Read full review
60
We Got This CoveredScott CampbellMar 28, 2022
It might be way too long and suffer from many familiar problems, but 'Ambulance' still has enough action-packed thrills in the tank to rank as Michael Bay's best movie in years. Read full review
60
Total FilmJamie GrahamMar 24, 2022
It’s a bonkers, ballistic, brain-numbing ride. Read full review
60
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyMar 24, 2022
Ambulance is a purely aesthetic beast, made for those who like their films to look like they’ve been edited by someone in the middle of a panic attack. Read full review
60
EmpireJohn NugentMar 24, 2022
Michael Bay’s tribute to the emergency services (which involves blowing several of them up) is noisy, messy and frequently absurd — yet still somehow his most gleefully entertaining effort in at least a decade. Read full review
50
The New YorkerAnthony LaneApr 18, 2022
Every Bay film is cheesy, but this one counts as high-speed cheese, grilled to the max by Danny’s thoughtful advice: “Just. Drive. Fast.” Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsApr 8, 2022
What good is a movie that can’t stop moving, or screaming, long enough to pace itself? Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternApr 7, 2022
In this action adventure, the apotheosis of his career thus far, cheerful idiocy occasionally rises to the level of delectable lunacy. For the most part, though, it’s entertainment as punishing paradox, a high-speed slog. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperApr 6, 2022
Jake Gyllenhaal is an A-lister for a reason, but he gives a one-note, screaming performance here and is less than convincing as an unhinged psychopath who seems to have a death wish. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleSarah JaneApr 6, 2022
Look, I can’t even pretend like Ambulance is great movie. I can’t even say it’s good, but, and it’s a really big but here, I can say for more than half of the run time, I was entertained. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 6, 2022
Ambulance is 80 minutes of pure mayhem wallowing through 140-150 minutes of pure Michael Bay hokum. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubTodd GilchristApr 6, 2022
Ambulance is boilerplate Michael Bay, a thrill ride full of muscle and testosterone and style. Read full review
40
The New YorkerRichard BrodyApr 12, 2022
If the movie has any merit at all, it’s in the seemingly unintentional mockery of the conventions and styles of far more purposeful and intention-laden films. In its chaotic whirl of tinsel images, it thumbs its nose at the kind of plain realism that too often passes as synonymous with sincerity. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeApr 5, 2022
At the core of the film, partially concealed by Bay’s posturing and swagger, is a bracing, slickly executed B-movie. Read full review
40
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)Mar 25, 2022
At an overlong two-hours-plus, Ambulance is Bay at his most masturbatory. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawMar 23, 2022
For all the spectacular action set pieces, there’s something silly and tedious that sets in well before the two-hour mark. It flatlines. Read full review
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