Bullitt

Name: Bullitt
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Released: October 17, 1968
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 81
Cast: Carl Reindel, Don Gordon, Georg Stanford Brown, Jacqueline Bisset, Justin Tarr

1968

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Warner Brothers/Seven Arts | Release Date: October 17, 1968 | M/PG

Starring: Carl Reindel, Don Gordon, Georg Stanford Brown, Jacqueline Bisset, Justin Tarr, Norman Fell, Robert Duvall, Robert Vaughn, Simon Oakland, Steve McQueen

Summary: An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.

Director: Peter Yates

Genre(s): Action, Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Rating: M/PG

Runtime: 114 min

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Expert chase film, breathless and modern, that sent McQueen to the top of the box office heap. Bullitt is a return to the old, tough crime movies so expertly played by Bogart and Robinson, but made modern here by great technical advances and McQueen's taciturn, antihero stance. Yates's superb direction presents a fluid, always moving camera. All the performers are top-notch. Read full review

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It is simply one of the most exciting and intelligent action films in years, probably the best good-cop film we can expect to encounter. Read full review

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Roger Ebert

McQueen is great in Bullitt, and the movie is great, because director Peter Yates understands the McQueen image and works within it. He winds up with about the best action movie of recent years. Read full review

The Telegraph Staff (Not Credited)

The film that made Steve McQueen a superstar and revolutionised the car chase with its 10-minute split-screen, edge-of-your-seat race up and down the hills of San Francisco. [12 Jan 2017]

Michael Wilmington

Chic, shallow stuff, but there's one hell of a car chase. [22 Jan 1999, p.F]

John McMurtrie

The movie's tone follows Yates' sensible credo of "less is more." McQueen, as the stylish, unflappable and virilely named Lt. Frank Bullitt, has little to say; he conveys most of his feelings with his piercing blue eyes. The gritty atmosphere of the location shots matches Bullitt's heavy brooding. [29 May 2005]

Nick Cramp

If more attention had been paid to plot and characterisation, this would have been a great rather than a good movie. Even so, it stands as a cinematic landmark. Without it there may well have been no Dirty Harry or The French Connection. Read full review

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robevery1971

Jan 17, 2020

If you looked up cool in a dictionary, it should read Steve McQueen in this movie, he simply ozzes the stuff. I don't know why I like him, but he simply offers up a look, a quiet reserve that makes this movie.

It's not about the car chase, or the scenry, it is the click of the shoes, theIf you looked up cool in a dictionary, it should read Steve McQueen in this movie, he simply ozzes the stuff. I don't know why I like him, but he simply offers up a look, a quiet reserve that makes this movie.

It's not about the car chase, or the scenry, it is the click of the shoes, the look of the hospital, the complexity of the story, the beuaty of his girlfriend and him protecting her, his ally Dalgetty.

But most of all it is about Steve, the looks, the fashion, the fact he knows it, the good cop, the car, the San Fran.

A masterpiece in cop movies.… Expand

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Gamzguy17

Aug 21, 2021

Outside of one impressive and gripping car chase, ‘Bullitt' is a gross case of riding on the star power of McQueen, who sadly cannot carry this picture, a picture which doesn't bother to invest in its characters. Instead, the film would much rather stare at an airplane landing and aOutside of one impressive and gripping car chase, ‘Bullitt' is a gross case of riding on the star power of McQueen, who sadly cannot carry this picture, a picture which doesn't bother to invest in its characters. Instead, the film would much rather stare at an airplane landing and a photocopier printing someone's profile. Those are just a couple of padding scenes that take up much of the running time. The film takes the crime out of crime-drama and becomes a total slog to sit through both before and after the chase scene, which by the way, doesn't come in until past the halfway mark. Be warned as this one hasn't aged too well.… Expand

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Broyax

Apr 22, 2020

Superbe poursuite très bien faite et très bien filmée, vraiment on ne se lasse pas de la voir et la revoir ! même s'il faut accélérer fissa (pied au plancher avec la télécommande, trace, trace la route !) jusqu'au moment où elle arrive ou plutôt démarre enfin (autour d'une heure je crois,Superbe poursuite très bien faite et très bien filmée, vraiment on ne se lasse pas de la voir et la revoir ! même s'il faut accélérer fissa (pied au plancher avec la télécommande, trace, trace la route !) jusqu'au moment où elle arrive ou plutôt démarre enfin (autour d'une heure je crois, j'ai pas fait très attention).

C'est un peu traître comme film, car on s'endort en effet très rapidement et si on a pas mis son réveil, on risque alors de louper la fameuse poursuite ! pourquoi ne l'ont-ils pas mise dès le début ? on aurait gagné du temps, puis on aurait au bout de 10 mn vaqué à nos occupations normales.

Cela étant, en réaccélérant juste après, j'ai constaté la présence de la ravissante Jacqueline Bisset en repos du guerrier-flicard pour ce bon vieux Steve... ce dernier ne peut pas grand-chose pour redonner un semblant d'intérêt à l'un des plus mauvais polars de ces -au moins- 100 dernières années... Oui, c'est "mauvais" à ce point, ça parle, ça n'avance pas, ça reparle... Steve fait un créneau avec la Mustang et... éventuellement, il peut poursuivre iniopinément un malfrat ici pendant 30 s... puis un autre à la fin : enfin !

Et pendant ce temps euh...c'était quoi l'histoire déjà ? un témoin qui fait chier tout le monde, nous y compris ! donc j'hésite : 2 ou 3 ? 3 points pour une seule poursuite ? non, c'est exagéré : 2 points suffiront...… Expand

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