Transformers director Michael Bay recently expressed dissatisfaction with the CGI in his new movie, the action-thriller Ambulance.
As reported by Variety, Bay admitted he preferred Ambulance's extensive practical stuntwork over its handful of visual effects shots. "All those explosions and cars flipping, that's all real. That's all live, real, ratchets. It looks very dangerous [and] it could be very dangerous if you don't know what the hell you're doing," Bay said. "Most of it is real stunts. There's very few blue screen shots on the movie. There's not a lot of CGI. Some of the CGI is shit in this movie. There's a couple shots that I wasn't happy with, okay? Alright."
Ambulance tells the story of adopted brothers Danny and Will Sharp, who hijack an ambulance as part of a bank robbery gone wrong. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Danny and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Will, as well as Eiza González and Jackson White as two first responders Danny and Will take hostage. Early reviews for the film have been broadly positive and Ambulance currently holds a 76% Fresh rating on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes.
Ambulance is distributed by Universal Pictures and is not part of the multi-year first look deal Bay signed with Sony Pictures back in 2020. It marks his return to the director's chair for the first time since 2019's 6 Underground, another action-thriller that starred Ryan Reynolds and Mélanie Laurent. The most recent film to hit cinemas with Bay's name attached to it was 2021 dystopian action-horror outing The Forever Purge. Directed by Everardo Valerio Gout and produced by Bay, the film was originally meant to be the final entry in the popular Purge franchise, however, another installment has since been greenlit.
Bay is also one of the producers on Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, the newest addition to the Transformers film series he launched in 2007. Rise of the Beasts is a direct sequel to 2018's Bumblebee and introduces characters and concepts from the Beast Wars toy line and its associated animated series. It stars Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback and is intended to serve as the first part of a new Transformers trilogy.
While filming on Rise of the Beasts wrapped in October 2021, Paramount Pictures announced a month later that it was postponing the movie's release date by a year. Rise of the Beasts is now scheduled to premiere on June 9, 2023.
Ambulance arrives in theaters on April 8, 2022.
Source: Variety