From the college campus opening to the mismatched odd-couple team up, Emergency might seem like a conventional genre movie. However, director Casey Williams and writer KD Davila have more up their sleeves than an escalating drama, with occasional dashes of comedic satire thrown in. Headlined by RJ Cyler and Donald Elise Williams, featured in The Harder They Fall and The Underground Railroad, respectively, Emergency takes an unlikely premise and then continues to compound it for an hour and 40 minutes.
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