Michael Bay is widely known and loved by fans for his explosive style of directing when it comes to some of the biggest franchises ever, like Transformers, but he’s also found success with one of his forgotten TV shows this year. Between 2014 and 2018, Bay produced the Eric Dane-led sci-fi series, The Last Ship, which aired on TNT for five seasons. The show was added to Netflix earlier this year, where it found redemption as one of the most-watched titles on the platform, and though it’s settled down now, it encouraged people to check out some of Bay’s other projects. Bay was originally set to reunite with Will Smith for a new Netflix action movie, Fast and Loose, but he left the project after creative differences arose between him and Smith.
It’s been a quiet few years for Bay, who has been hard at work on the Skibidi Toilet adaptation — yes, that’s a real thing — but he’s reportedly returning to the Transformers franchise for a new movie. The last time Bay stepped behind the camera to direct a feature film came back in 2022 when he teamed up with Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II for Ambulance, the high-octane thriller that grossed over $52 million at the box office. This would have been more impressive were it not carrying a $40 million budget, leaving it with an estimated break-even point of over $75 million. For the last few months, Ambulance has been streaming exclusively on Netflix, but the streamer recently pulled the film from its library at the start of November. However, it’s still available to rent or purchase on VOD platforms like Prime Video and Apple TV.
Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you
handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive
the trilogy, and probably headline it.
You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t
escalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are
so careful never to be the reason you start.
- The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who
honours every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one
against him. - You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and
then completely immovable past it. - Focus, commitment and sheer will. You’d be the one carrying grief through three sequels
and turning it into technique rather than noise. - People wouldn’t call you dangerous. They’d say your name quietly and let that do the
work.
You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about:
the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and
you’d drive through a building for any one of them.
- This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its actual subject,
because loyalty scales and plot doesn’t have to. - You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you
defend it past the point of reason. - You’d thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve,
an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics. - The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.
You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself
anyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how
to ask somebody else to carry the risk.
- This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the
rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that’s left. - You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an
administrative error. - You’d thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure.
The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door. - Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.
You are not the most trained person in the building, the best
equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the
end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.
- Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outgunned, out-planned,
bleeding, and extremely funny about it. - You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn’t make you noble, it makes you sarcastic,
and then it makes you unstoppable. - You’d thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation,
and you’ve never had the luxury of preparing anyway. - You didn’t want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.
What Is ‘Ambulance’ About?
In addition to Gyllenhaal and Abdul-Mateen II, Ambulance also stars Eiza González, who can be seen in Guy Ritchie‘s 2026 blockbuster, In The Grey. Garett Dillahunt, who had a key role in the critically acclaimed HBO series, Lanterns, also stars in Ambulance. The official synopsis for Ambulance, which earned scores of 68% from critics and 87% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows:
“Over one day across the streets of L.A., three lives will change forever. In this breakneck thriller from director-producer Michael Bay, decorated veteran Will Sharp, desperate for money to cover his wife’s medical bills, asks for help from the one person he knows he shouldn’t — his adoptive brother Danny. A charismatic career criminal, Danny instead offers him a score: the biggest bank heist in Los Angeles history: $32 million. With his wife’s survival on the line, Will can’t say no. But when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate brothers hijack an ambulance with a wounded cop clinging to life and ace EMT Cam Thompson onboard. In a high-speed pursuit that never stops, Will and Danny must evade a massive, city-wide law enforcement response, keep their hostages alive, and somehow try not to kill each other, all while executing the most insane escape L.A. has ever seen.”
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“Over one day across the streets of L.A., three lives will change forever. In this breakneck thriller from director-producer Michael Bay, decorated veteran Will Sharp, desperate for money to cover his wife’s medical bills, asks for help from the one person he knows he shouldn’t — his adoptive brother Danny. A charismatic career criminal, Danny instead offers him a score: the biggest bank heist in Los Angeles history: $32 million. With his wife’s survival on the line, Will can’t say no. But when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate brothers hijack an ambulance with a wounded cop clinging to life and ace EMT Cam Thompson onboard. In a high-speed pursuit that never stops, Will and Danny must evade a massive, city-wide law enforcement response, keep their hostages alive, and somehow try not to kill each other, all while executing the most insane escape L.A. has ever seen.”
Check out Ambulance on VOD platforms like Prime Video now that it’s been removed from Netflix, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Michael Bay’s future projects.
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