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The Ambulance
91 minutes (15) 1990
review by Tony Lee

Having destroyed the mythical status of police as heroes in his Maniac Cop films, independant filmmaker Larry Cohen wrecks the respectability of the paramedic service with this 'Burke and Hare' update.
 Marvel Comics artist, Joshua (Mask's Eric Stoltz), spies his dreamgirl on the New York streets one day but, while chatting her up, Cheryl (Janine Turner) collapses and is taken away by ambulance. The mystery is that she never arrived at the hospital - any hospital. Cop James Earl Jones turns in another of his increasingly eccentric performances as the unsympathetic-at-first detective, while ageing newshound Elias (Red Buttons) isn't too sure about Josh either - but he smells a story, so offers to help. Comics publisher Stan Lee is amongst the supporting cast (as is Cohen regular Laurene Landon), but it's policewoman Sandra (Megan Gallagher) who provides determined Joshua with the information required to track down the evil doctor (Eric Braeden, of The Forbin Project) who's using kidnapped Manhattanites in the illegal research he's doing on diabetics. Much intensely urban paranoia is economically generated by the witty script, a typically-engaging bunch of offbeat characters, and an incredible scenario - convincingly presented. In the wake of Ron Howard's Backdraft, the New York fire brigade had better watch out - they may be next.

Tony Lee
originally published in Strange Adventures #33 (Autumn 1991)

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