Ambulancen – Movie Review
ABC Film Challenge – World Cinema – A
Director: Laurits Munch-Petersen
Writer: Laurits Munch-Petersen, Lars Andreas Pedersen (Screenplay)
Cast
- Paw Henriksen (In a Better World)
- Thomas Bo Larsen (Another Round)
- Helle Fagralid (Sorrow and Joy)
- Torbjørn Hummel (Forbrydelsen)
- Niels Andersen
- Lars Bjarke (Sølvtråd)
Plot: Two brothers commit a robbery out of desperation. However, when it all goes wrong they decide to steal an ambulance, but they soon realize that they are not alone.
Runtime: 1 Hour 20 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Ambulancen starts when Tim (Henriksen) and Frank (Larsen) rob a bank. In their attempts to escape, they steal an ambulance. However, they learn they aren’t alone as paramedic Julie (Fagralid) is treating a patient in the back.
The pair can’t simply give up and end up taking the pair with them in their desperate attempt to escape the police. However, not everything goes to plan and the three must figure out what to do to make it out alive.
Verdict on Ambulancen
Ambulancen is an action thriller which famously got remade by Michael Bay. It follows a couple of thieves who hijack an ambulance in an attempt to escape. However, they are not aware of a paramedic on board and must figure out how to elude the law and keep the patient alive.
This is a simple and effective thriller using the high-speed escape to the law. It delivers the moral dilemma of what to do with the patient and keeps us on edge as to what will happen. However, you can see why it needed an update in recent years. It doesn’t have the same level of intensity as the remake and ends up becoming a typical entertaining late-night action movie.
Where to Watch
Final Thoughts – Ambulancen is a late-night action 101 movie.
