Universal Pictures is officially delaying Michael Bay’s Ambulance movie release date two months from February 18 to April 8, 2022. Based on the 2005 Danish film of the same name, the action thriller centers on war veteran William Sharp as he reaches out to his adoptive criminal brother Danny for help to get $231,000 to pay for his wife’s surgery. The two head out for a $32 million bank heist, though when things go wrong and a Los Angeles Police officer is shot, they hijack an ambulance with an EMT and the dying officer as their hostages and race to find a way to escape the law.
Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II lead the ensemble cast of Ambulance alongside Eiza González, Garret Dillahunt, A Martinez, Keir O’Donnell, Moses Ingram and Wale Folarin.
The film was originally set to hit theaters on February 18, where it was pitting itself against Sony’s Tom Holland-starring Uncharted movie adaptation and Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel. at the time of writing, no specific reason from the studio was given for the shift in Ambulance’s release date.
