Six minutes is all Ambush needs to set its action in motion: a 2023 short built around a single job gone loud, directed by Mark Burman.
What is Ambush about?
A driver behind the wheel of a BMW takes on an unusual assignment: shielding an eccentric elderly foreigner from a group of criminals closing in fast. With almost no runway to build the story, the short leans on momentum over dialogue, compressing chase, threat and protection into a handful of minutes rather than stretching them across a full feature.
About the cast
The ensemble is unusually stacked for a six-minute short: Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Aaron Eckhart headline a cast that also includes Connor Paolo, Mara Lane, Patrick R. Walker, Jason Genao, Mac Brandt and Jordan Johnson-Hinds, giving the brief runtime more recognisable faces than most projects its length attempt.
Context & significance
Short-format action pieces like Ambush live or die on economy, and pairing genre stars like Rhys Meyers and Eckhart with a compressed six-minute frame is itself the point, testing how much tension a crew can build without a feature's room to spare. Mark Burman's direction keeps the focus tight on the central pairing of driver and passenger rather than spreading attention across the wider group of pursuers. Filed under both action and short, the 2023 release fits a format that lives on festival circuits and streaming shelves precisely because it asks so little of a viewer's time while still fielding a cast this recognisable, a combination that's rarer than it sounds for anything under ten minutes long.
Watching Ambush on Ktime
Ambush is available on K-Time with a free account login, and both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles are included, so the short's fast pace comes through clearly for Farsi-speaking viewers. Its brief runtime makes it an easy watch to slot into K-Time's Farsi-language browsing experience between longer titles, and the same login carries across every other film or series in the catalogue without any extra setup. Critically, it holds a solid reception for a project this short, the kind of standing that tends to follow when a cast this recognisable is put to work on a tight, well-paced premise.