Five years after his last big-screen blockbuster, Transformers: The Last Knight, director Michael Bay puts the pedal to the metal with a turbo-charged English language remake of a 2005 Danish thriller helmed by Laurits Munch-Petersen.

This incarnation of Ambulance, written by Chris Fedak, transplants the action to the mean streets of Los Angeles, where three lives are changed forever over the course of one frenetic day.

War veteran Will Sharp (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) faces crippling medical bills to protect his beloved wife Amy (Moses Ingram) and keep his family intact.

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He has nowhere to turn except to his adopted brother, Danny (Jake Gyllenhaal), a career criminal with a nose for trouble.

Danny is masterminding the biggest bank heist in the city’s history and offers Will a cut of the 32 million dollar haul, more than enough to cover Amy’s life-saving surgery?

Unfortunately, the getaway from the robbery goes spectacularly awry and Will and Danny hijack an ambulance.

Inside, EMT Cam Thompson (Eiza Gonzalez) is tending to a wounded police officer and she needs to get her patient to the nearest hospital as quickly as possible.

As law enforcements attempts to lock down Los Angeles, Will takes the wheel of the ambulance while Danny takes aim at helicopters and police cars that prevent them from engineering a daredevil escape.