Maximum Bayhem!
The basic pitch is "bank robbery goes wrong and the robbers get away in an ambulance"... and that's the longer story too. In fact, you'll be impressed by how far they can stretch a premise of "not being able to stop an ambulance" and making it a lot worse.
Which brings up a question I have to ask, and this has been asked before explicitly in movies, but not here, for example in Saving Private Ryan. While you can't really (emotionally) express this in numbers: how many people have to die in order to save one person?
There's a cop in the back of the ambulance, which is the main reason they just don't ram it off the road. But there are many, many crashes and damn skippy the officers inside those cars are not making it out (there's one moment where a car is sliced in half by a ramp off the back of a truck). Except we don't see any of them, so... does that make it right? Is "unless we see them dead they are fine" logic in play here? Because, and I do acknowledge it's not an easy call, many people do seem to be dead here. Which the movie doesn't address at all. (So I guess "and they all lived happily ever after being cut in two" does hold...)
It wouldn't be an excessive problem, but the damn chase goes on so long that you have time to sit and wonder about these things. Yes, this is a Bay movie, and you can tell he got some drone cameras and decided to use them all over the place, but after a while explosions and swooping cameras just become background noise.
It's fine and basic entertainment, but clearly it wasn't quite enough to stop me from pondering the big questions.
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