Bullitt (1968)
Genre: Action / Crime
Duration: 114 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Peter Yates
Stars: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn and Robert Duvall
IMDb score:
7,4 (82.220)
Releasedate: 17 October 1968
Bullitt plot
"There are bad cops, good cops - and then there's Bullitt."
Detective Frank Bullitt is chosen by politician Chalmers to protect a Mafia witness. However, this one is shot by two hitmen who seem to know exactly where he was hiding. Bullitt begins an investigation into both the killer and the leak, ensuring that the witness lives as long as possible so that the killers will return.
Actors and actresses
Lt. Frank Bullitt
Walter Chalmers
Cathy
Lt. Delgetti
Cabbie Weissberg
Captain Sam Bennett
Captain Baker
Dr. Willard
Eddy
Detective Stanton
Reviews & comments
Lovelyboy
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- 4222 messages
- 3173 votes
Excellent and classy detective in the vein of The French Connection and the Dirty Harry series, which I must confess that I had apparently never seen this film before or it just slipped my mind.
As said, stylish film with a nice soundtrack where I immediately thought I noticed a certain parallel with Kelly's Heroes and it is indeed the same composer, Lalo Schifrin. In addition, the calm and realistic atmosphere of police and hospital protocols is striking, interspersed with a single well-executed outburst of violence and the famous car chase.
The film exudes atmosphere, realism and quality and stands out as solid. Bisset extremely suitable as eye candy, Vaughn shadowy as always and McQueen is of course an extremely fascinating person. Although I expected a little bit more from it, it is all in all a more than fine film.
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Filmkriebel
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- 10326 messages
- 4837 votes
Still disappointed. Bullitt is nicely filmed in itself and for McQueen this is one of his iconic films. The infamous chase scene has some cool camera angles so that you can imagine yourself at the wheel at a few moments. Until the positive...
Furthermore, a story that is somewhat messy, with a fairly slow pace and a few twists.
McQueen herself is too dry and flat fleshed out to be memorable. Watch Dirty Harry and you'll know how to conjure up a nice character... I expected to give this at least a 4 given the solid reputation of this crime film, but it's going to be a 3*
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Roger Thornhill
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- 6284 messages
- 2594 votes
Steve McQueen used to have a tendency to "steal" scenes by suddenly doing things with props in the background (which brought him into conflict with the star on the set of The magnificent seven from that movie Yul Brynner), but in Bullitt he apparently didn't need that anymore, because he knew no doubt that the viewer's eyes would be on him as the star of the movie anyway (and stay), so he could play everything perfectly cool here, and because the director and the other actors adopted the same attitude, a film that could lean nicely on its atmosphere. And this film has a lot of atmosphere, with beautiful locations (San Francisco still mainly reminds me of Vertigo, but this film also makes good use of it), beautiful tight suits, realistic dialogues without too many dramatic outbursts or artificial slang, jazzy music that does not dominate anywhere, and above all the King of Übercool himself in the lead role. The fact that the plot is further on the second plan and the chase scene is in my opinion not as good as its reputation would have us believe is actually not so important anymore.
Has anyone else noticed the similarity with Heat? A self-absorbed cop who lives for his job (Al Pacino in Heat : "All I am is what I'm going after"), a city that's almost an extra character in the cast, and even a final scene on the lawns along an airport runway...
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