Jake Gyllenhaal defies gravity in Michael Bay’s Ambulance trailer

Hollywood star Jake Gyllenhaal hangs out of a moving ambulance and shoots at a police helicopter in the explosive first trailer for filmmaker Michael Bay’s actionier Ambulance.

Based on the 2005 Danish film of the same name, Ambulance stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as an army veteran down on his luck who turns to “brother” Gyllenhaal for help when he needs $231,000 to pay for his wife’s surgery. Gyllenhaal finds the solution — $32 million bank robbery.

Set in Los Angeles over the course of one day, the movie, written by Chris Fedak, also stars Eiza Gonzalez, Garret Dillahunt and Devan Long.

The fast-paced trailer shows the duo trying to outrun SWAT teams, cop cars and LAPD helicopters. “We’re not the bad guys,” Gyllenhaal tries to reassure Yahya Abdul-Mateen and himself in the trailer. “We’re just the guys trying to get home. We don’t get to walk off into the sunset,” Yahya Abdul-Mateen counters. Gyllenhaal told shooting action scenes in the small, enclosed space gave him a newfound ‘respect for first responders’.

He added, “A lot of the movie I’m in an ambulance, so there’s not a lot of space (laughs). There are a lot of scenes where I’m just being thrown around an ambulance and I’ve got to say, that gave me even more respect for first responders because there are so many sharp edges in an ambulance nobody thinks about when it’s driving as fast it is.” — IANS