Bullitt

Name: Bullitt
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Released: October 17, 1968
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 83
Cast: Carl Reindel, Don Gordon, Georg Stanford Brown, Jacqueline Bisset, Justin Tarr

1968

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Bullitt

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

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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The Hollywood Reporter - Staff (Not Credited)

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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The Guardian - John Patterson

Blessed with the fresh eyes of newly landed Englishman Yates (and genius cameraman William Fraker), the movie makes San Francisco fresh and alive, but also completely remakes and modernises the bleak, sleazy gangster demimonde in which Bullitt does his hunting. Read full review

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Chicago Sun-Times - 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 New York Times - Renata Adler

A terrific movie, just right for Steve McQueen—fast, well acted, written the way people talk. Read full review

Time Out London - Staff (Not Credited)

The plot, concerning the battle of wits between an honest cop and an ambitious politician for possession of the key witness in a Mafia exposé, is serviceable but nothing special. But the action sequences are brilliant, done without trickery in real locations (including a great car chase which spawned a thousand imitations) to lend an extraordinary sense of immediacy to the shenanigans and gunfights. Read full review

Los Angeles Times - Dan Neil

Not to go all Pauline Kael on you, but Bullitt -- the 1968 crime drama starring a Ford Mustang GT390 and some guy named Steve McQueen -- is a fairly tedious bit of Aquarian cinema: the chicka-chicka-waah soundtrack, the inscrutable plot, the anaerobic dullness of every second that McQueen is off-camera. Bullitt scrabbles to its minor footnote status in film history on two counts. The first: It marks the only time any man ever looked cool in a cardigan -- McQueen should have gotten the academy's knitwear award. The second is the movie's remarkable seven-minute chase scene, with real cars (the Mustang and a black Dodge Charger), real drivers and real stunts, no special effects. Read full review

Chicago Reader - Dave Kehr

Steve McQueen as a tres chic San Francisco cop, though the real star is his sports car. There isn't much here, and what there is is awfully easy. With Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn, Robert Duvall, and a chase sequence that achieved classic status mainly by going on too long; Peter Yates directed this 1968 feature. Read full review

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