Spoiler alert: This story discusses funny moments during “Ambulance.”
Director Michael Bay’s “Ambulance” may be an extremely gratifying wild ride that frees viewers from ever wondering, “Could this really happen?”
It certainly couldn’t.
The fictionally distant film (in theaters now) stars two brothers, Danny and Will Sharp (Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), who hijack an ambulance carrying an injured police officer and paramedic to $32 million Los Angeles. Let’s escape from bank robbery. (Eiza Gonzalez) fighting for his life.
In real life, there have been chases by police with stolen ambulances, including a 40-mile police chase in 2018.
Much of the rest is completely, unrestrained. We’ve narrowed down five of our craziest moments:
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is an emergency, first time ambulance spleen operation
“Has it just happened?” No List of Moments should feature a spleen operation first performed by surgeon Cam Thompson (Gonzalez) with the help of Will, who discovers a hidden bullet wound from which his police officer is bleeding. With limited surgical equipment and no anaesthesia, Will has to be wrapped around a wall to keep the patient from waking up intermittently in a panic.
Cam gets his hands deep into the patient while receiving instructions in a video call with his surgeon ex-boyfriend (Andy Favreau), who joins his colleagues on the golf course for the conference call surgery. Cam nails it with a MacGyver, closing the wound with his hair clip when the spleen ruptures.
Later, the officer, not looking too shabby after major surgery, asks, “Was your hand in my stomach?” Yes, officer, it was.
Helicopters shoot down suspects, rip through bridges
Chasing LAPD Air Support meets an ambulance during a 51-mile concrete section of the Los Angeles River. Two Airbus H125 helicopters soar 5 to 10 feet above the basin and swoop under the familiar arches of iconic concrete bridges, about 15 to 50 feet between them. Helicopters then blew up the escape ambulance, with Danny leaning out the window and firing at them.
The impossible scene has been pulled off using two helicopter stunt pilots, Fred North and Ben Skorstedt.
Longtime Bay Consultant and LAPD veteran Jamie McBride says he explained that LAPD copters will never fly low and will never be under bridges, or so close to each other (and ambulances). “Michael values his mentors,” McBride says. “And he also tells you, ‘Hey, I’m making a movie!
Police chief stops close chase due to flatulent dog
Captain Monroe (Garrett Dillhunt), leading the LAPD’s Special Investigations Section unit, stops a particularly tight chase of the fleeing ambulance when he discovers that his 200-pound, flatulent Mastiff is in the Nitro police car. is following.
“Fall back,” Monroe orders when he learns that Nitro, which was supposed to be taken home on his vacation, is in the midst of a scuffle.
True parts of the scene: Nitro is adorable, and mastiffs are known for their flatulence. Bey would know: It’s her dog, Nitro Zeus, playing the dog in a fascinating breakout performance.
Snipers have been ordered to shoot drivers on the highway
There is real-time pressure to end the ambulance chase aired on every TV station, even by the liberal mayor of Los Angeles. Monroe orders the police snipers to take Danny and Will out – while they are driving on a secluded highway with Cam in the back of the ambulance.
The pair are in steady snipers’ crosshairs when Monroe learns that his wounded officer has somehow survived surgery on his spleen. He called off the strike.
Worst of Madness: Shooter cracks in windshield of ambulance
Danny plans to meet with a gang leader under a bridge with more stolen ambulances and then kicks them out to completely confuse the police. Great idea, albeit the bizarre idea of painting your own ambulance bright neon green. It all goes downhill from there, and the gang is eventually reunited with Danny and Will. One member tries to hammer out the moving ambulance from the front, but is blown skyward by a misguided pre-shot by a colleague.
His final resting place is in the middle of the windshield of a speeding ambulance. Will pushes the casualty aside and just moves on.
