Action thriller ‘Ambulance’ in 16 Lankan cinemas from today

American action thriller film ‘Ambulance’ will be screened in 16 Sri Lankan cinemas from today.

They are Liberty by Scope Cinemas, Colombo City Centre ATMOS, PVR Colombo 2, KCC Kandy City Centre ATMOS, Majestic Superior Cinema, Regal Dematagoda, Vista Lite, Amity Lite, Maxx Lite, Sky Lite, Nikado Cinema, Lehka Homagama, Aruna Cinema, Milano Kegalle, NIT Ratnapura and NIT Kurunegala.

The movie is directed and produced by Michael Bay. It is a co-production between New Republic Pictures, Endeavor Content, Project X Entertainment, and Bay Films. It is based on the 2005 Danish film of the same name by Laurits Munch-Petersen and Lars Andreas Pedersen.  The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Eiza González and follows two adoptive siblings turned bank robbers who steal an ambulance occupied by a paramedic and a police officer in critical condition.

The synopsis is that, needing money to cover his wife’s medical bills, a decorated veteran teams up with his adoptive brother to steal $ 32 million from a Los Angeles bank. However, when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate thieves hijack an ambulance that’s carrying a severely wounded cop and an EMT worker. Caught in a high-speed chase, the two siblings must figure out a way to outrun the law while keeping their hostages alive.