It left me breathless! I was hanging off the edge of my seat for the entire film and covering my eyes continuously! The Ambulance is full of nerve-wrecking action - but I must say that my expectations were not met entirely on the comic aspects! After having seen the trailer and chosen to see this film on account of it being an action comedy - I was a little disappointed! In retrospect I think this is due to poor marketing - leading the audience to believe one thing but delivering another! It really IS a good film - it has many layers and was even touching - but when you are mislead in the marketing department you are bound to have some unsatisfied customers! So see this film with new eyes - definitely action - but more drama than comedy (not that it doesn't have some brilliant humor from time to time) - and judge for yourself!
5.3Plot summary
An intense 80-minute tour de force about two brothers, Tim and Frank, who commit a robbery to get money for their dying mother to continue her medical treatment in Germany after the Danish health-care system abandons her. But the robbery goes wrong and the police arrive, preventing the two brothers from using their planned getaway car. Instead they steal an ambulance, but they discover during their escape from the police that a dying heart patient and Julie, a hospital intern, are in the back of the vehicle. Julie tells the two brothers that the patient will die if they don't turn around immediately and go back to the hospital. This puts the two brothers against each other. Suddenly they face the dilemma of their lives: do they save the patient or their own mother? Tim is forced to turn against his own big brother to prevent having a murder on his conscience.
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Heart and blood!
I think this is a different kind of action film, actually more a drama than a comedy. I was very fascinated by the shots inside the body with the heart and the blood veins. And the idea about the story taking place in real time also gives quite a special feeling to the film.
Maybe it's not that original to cast Thomas Bo Larsen as the criminal, but it's nice to see the other two new faces in Danish cinema; Paw Heniksen and Helle Fagralid. I think they all do it very well in this intense and original little road movie.
It reminded me about Phone Booth with only one location and real time. You don't really need anymore to make a good drama.
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I saw this Danish Feature Film at The Umeå Film festival and found it very special. The whole film takes place in a car (an ambulance) and it all takes place in real time. These two elements themselves give the film a very special atmosphere. Maybe the experiment doesn't work all the way trough the film, but at least it's very original. And the story about the two brothers actually touched me.
I will recommend you to see the film if you meet it at a festival. At least you'll get to see something you haven't seen before. ANd the Danish actor Thomas Bo Larsen (who was also in the film Festen) is brilliant as the big brother. I didn't know the other two actors, but they were also giving good performances.