Michael Bay’s got a drone camera and he’s going to use it. During the endless chase sequences and shootouts that form the spine of his freakishly overlong remake of Laurits Munch-Petersen’s nippier 2005 original, Bay’s camera swoops and dives, hurtling round the canyon skyscapes of Los Angeles and ducking and swerving inquisitively into the very heart of the carnage and chaos that ensues when Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s attempted bank robbery goes wrong and they’re forced to commandeer an ambulance with two first responders on board.

Mercifully, Ambulance is far less irritating and cacophonous than many of Bay’s more recent efforts and it’s actually a fairly serviceable, if routine, action run-around. It’s at its best when it sets up its stall and establishes its characters in the first half-hour and there’s a certain tension generated by the situation that ensues when Danny Sharp (Gyllenhaal) and his adoptive brother Will (Abdul-Mateen II) become increasingly desperate as they hurtle around LA pursued by virtually the entire LAPD. But it starts to wear out its welcome by the sheer relentlessness of the chase that never seems to be in danger of ending and, despite the fact that the pair are terrified of the consequences if the injured cop in the back of the hi-jacked ambulance dies following a gunshot wound, no-one seems hugely bothered about the cop cars that crash, explode, and collide or the trail of destruction and devastation left in their wake. Enlivened by a sympathetic performance from Eiza González as jaded paramedic Cam Thompson, Ambulance is inoffensive, mindless fun even if the exhausting runtime is likely to leave you in need of life support by the time the credits roll.

Ambulance is available on digital platforms on June 13th.