open your eyes to the realization of what a paramedic sees and go through makes you appreciate your job because their job definitely isn't easy

This jittery drama wants viewers to appreciate the unique burdens facing emergency medical workers. Its approach to achieving this goal, however, involves a profusion of overly literal allusions to the paramedics as arbiters of life and death.

Natalia Winkelman

The New York Times

With cinematographer David Ungaro providing hand-held docudrama work in saturated colors, “Asphalt City” is bleak and heavy-handed, yet we get the feeling a lot of paramedics in major cities would say it’s not all that far from the harsh realities of the job.

Richard Roeper

Chicago Sun-Times