Like a club described by Bill Hader'sSaturday Night Live character Stefon, the first trailer for Michael Bay's new triller Ambulance has everything – car crashes, explosions, swirling camera moves, OTT action moments and people growling dialogue over radios. Oh, and it also has Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Eiza González in the lead roles.
In further keeping with current trailer trends, it's also A) long, has a slow cover of a song (California Dreaming) and appears to show a lot of the movie, so proceed with caution.
Ambulance, adapted from Laurits Munch-Petersen's 2005 Danish film Ambulancen by Chris Fedak, stars Abdul-Mateen II as Will Sharp, a combat veteran desperate for money to cover his wife’s medical bills. He asks for help from the one person he knows he shouldn’t — his adoptive brother Danny (Gyllenhaal). A charismatic career criminal, Danny instead offers him a score: the biggest bank heist in Los Angeles history: $32 million. With his wife’s survival on the line, Will can’t say no.
But when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate brothers hijack an ambulance with a wounded cop clinging to life and ace EMT Cam Thompson (González) onboard. In a high-speed pursuit that never stops, Will and Danny must evade a massive, city-wide law enforcement response, keep their hostages alive, and somehow try not to kill each other, all while executing the most insane escape LA has ever seen.
All your usual Bayhem can be found here – but we're hoping with the stars on board it's not just a greatest hits compilation. Ambulance will race onto UK screens on 18 February next year.