tripolis29

It should had been Michael Mann.

Don't get me wrong; Bay is a good filmmaker; not for any film though. I liked his work in The Rock, Bad Boys, Transformers; even Pearl Harbor wasn't that bad.. and in cases like "Ambulance" you realize how each director's vision is unique for the same screenplay.

Ambulance is a "Phone Booth" kind of film. Bay's approach reminded me a lot of Joel Schumacher in Phone Booth. However, after the bank shoutout, I couldn't stop thinking about how it could had been if Michael Mann had took the helm..

This movie is Heat meets Collateral, plot-wise. Both of those Michael Mann films are well made, stylistic, amazing thrillers, and very realistic. Imagine what Ambulance could had been in Mann's hands..

Well made, low budget short. I enjoyed every shot of it. Worth giving it a chance and stay till the end titles roll. It gives you an interesting preview of what the world of the upcoming Jurassic World 3 might look like.

I rarely review, but this was beyond me, as I felt I had both to warn people before watching this, and give a chance to myself to let off some steam by writing a few words... It was bad... It was really bad...in several levels.

1. The script was completely disrespectful to the franchise. Well, sometimes you just need to leave a few things as they are, out of respect only. But no... they had to mess with the timeline, so much that even "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" TV show looks less complicated, in terms of story. As you may have noticed from the voice-over during the film, even the screenwriters were looking for answers, along with us, the viewers...

2. The cast was a complete fail. Sarah Connor... Kyle Reese... John Connor... wow, I mean 3 out of 3 miscast? What are the odds for such a fail? Especially Jai Courntey and Jason Clarke... I like them as actors, but the roles were absolutely not for them! I only leave Arnie out of this. He was decent and funny, and in my opinion, the only character that kept my interest going during the movie.

3. Cinematography... well, it was as if I was watching a TV series, rather than a big budget movie...the lights, the shadows, everything was wrong... and I've seen TV shows with far better cinematography than this, let alone movies...

As a huge fan of Terminator Salvation, where the story was loyal to the Terminator mythos and the cast was amazing, I felt betrayed. And I never understood why Terminator Salvation had so many enemies... amazing story, great cast, future war on screen for the first time... Why didn't hey continue the franchise from there? So many stories can be told having the future war as background. I wanted to see Kyle Reese grow up and become the faithful right hand of John Connor, I wanted to watch the latter climbing the hierarchy of the leadership of the human Resistance, I wanted to see how Skynet and Connor sent the Terminator and Kyle respectively back to 1984, but remaining faithful to the well known timeline, I wanted to see how they later sent T-1000 and Arnie back to 1994, and then what really happened to John Connor and how the T-X and the second reprogrammed Terminator were sent back to 2003... These are what the fans wanted to see. Not a reboot. I could live with a slightly changed timeline after Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines... but I can't live with a whole new timeline.

What I loved about Terminator was that it played with the inevitability of fate and events. This is what made it different from the Back to the Future movies. Well... this was a Back to the Future Part II film...not a Terminator film...