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Rating:  -
I have read some of the reviews and what is with all the plot and history stuff.
Maybe short on plot, a little confusing, but a great action film for its time.
No CGI, no fake this or fake that. I later read that they went through several cars to complete the scenes, but it was real or as real as it could be. No green scenes.
This is a movie from the era where muscle cars were being made and Detroit Heavy Metal was King. The Heavy Metal was wrapped with a plain jane body, but there were guts there. Like Steve McQueen.
Maybe I am recalling the visceral feelings I got from watching the movie.
It was Fall in the outskirts of Tacoma Washington at one of several Drive-Ins, and the movie started around 10 - 10:30 on a Friday night. It was damp and there was a low fog that had rolled in. My date and I were in a Fastback Mustang that had a small V-8, we very were close to Screen having arrived late - so the whole movie filled our field of vision. In the chase scenes in the hills of SF, it felt like we were right there in the vehicle. To this date I still can feel my stomach going up and down.
So get the movie, turn down the lights, turn off the cells, unplug the phones and watch the movie on the largest screen possible and as close as possible. Recreate a movie making era and experience that does not exist today and could not be recreated today. Enjoy actors just entering their craft. Do not over-analyze it.
Enjoy it for its rawness and utter power.
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Somewhere inside the overlong, 114-minute Bullitt there is a brisk 90-minute long film desperate to get out. But as it is, it's seriously overlong with nothing to sustain it. Many pointless scenes come and go with loads of long, indulgent tracking shots goose-up the running time. I almost nodded-off a few times, I honestly don't see what all the fuss is about regarding this film.
The paper-thin story has Detective Bullitt trying to determine how a Mob informant in Police custody managed to be killed (he's not actually killed until about an hour later though). A local politician (Robery Vaughn, who didn't really want to do the film) acts as the token bureaucrat, standing in the way of getting things done. But getting WHAT done exactly? In 114 minutes almost NOTHING happens in this damn movie! Instead of mystery, clues, police procedure, shoot-outs and problem-solving we're treated to scene after scene of...not much. Bullitt eats food at the hospital, he goes shopping for celery and TV dinners, he hangs around with his girlfriend (a completely pointless character played by Jaqueline Bissett) and sometimes takes a passing interest in the case. About 80-minutes into this bore he is FINALLY involved in a car chase (THE car chase that everyone raves about) that 'tears up' the streets of San Francisco.
I don't understand why this film has so much adoration or why all the fans proclaim it's 'the original and best', 'the one that started it all' or any other generic soundbite you can think of. There were cop movies before this, there were car chases before this. What exactly is Bullitt credited with 'starting'?
A sense of being cool, calm and collected doesn't turn water into wine. Bullitt is plain, repetitive, agonizingly slow and almost completely without a plot. Don't consider me a philistine or someone who has been brainwashed by the over-edited nature of modern films where we're guaranteed and explosion every five minutes. I appreciate films from all eras and from all backgrounds. But Bullitt is just way, way overrated certainly does not deserve the high regard it's been lauded with. A real disappointment.
Aside from a few reeaally grainy shots, the HD DVD features a fine 1.85:1 1080p transfer with Dolby Digital Plus Mono sound. A fair amount of extras too.
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This is the quintessential police drama, especially in San Fransisco. Robert Vaughn is the perfect example of political interference with the otherwise (hopefully) unincumbered investigative process designed to solve crimes. Steve Mc Queen is the ultimate example of the dedicated policeman, despite private inhibiting influences, who does what he has to to find the guilty, and bring them to justice. The car chase upped the ante on car chases forever after. I do have to provide some background positive influence info. My wife, Laurie, and I happened to visit San Francisco Interanational Airport the very night Steve and the film crew filmed the Airport sequences. Best night of our lives!
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If you judge this movie with today's standarts you would say that it has a slow pace. However there are not many, if any, actors today like Steve McQueen just for that and the greatest car chase in movie history this movie is worth own it and watching it. It should be noted that at that period of time there were no computers or special effects that exist in todays movie industry and thus the car chase becames ever better. Good plot and great acting
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Lt.Frank Bullitt of the San Francisco Homicide Division,a racing green Mustang GT Fastback,a black Dodge Charger,a now classic chase scene.A trend setting detective story.You could call it the granddaddy of the modern cop movie.("The French Connection" and "Dirty Harry" being the other grandparents.)I first saw "Bullitt" in the theater back in 1973,after seeing "The French Connection" and "Dirty Harry" and I was quite impressed.Then I became a lifelong fan of Steve McQueen.McQueen did many(but not all), of the driving stunts in the flick.The insurance company and studios frown upon the star doing dangerous stunts.
This was based on a novel called "Mute Witness", and originally took place in Boston.This was a story from the Kennedy era.Because it involves "the Mob",or "the Syndicate" or "the Organization" as it is referred to in the movie.The reason I'm giving it four stars instead of five is that it's a little dated now.I've owned this since around 1990 on VHS.Now I have it on DVD and it looks terrific,letterboxed and in DOLBY Digital.It won the "Oscar" for Best Film Editing in 1968.It was directed by Peter Yates who is British.He did an admirable job.He was nominated for the "Oscar" for Best Director in 1979 for "Breaking Away" which was a very good comedy/drama.Robert Vaughn,(fresh off the T.V. series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.",remember Napoleon Solo?),co-stars as Bullitt's antagonist, a D.A. with political ambitions.They first co-starred together as two of "The Magnificent Seven" in 1960.A then unknown Robert Duvall has a co-starring role as a cab driver.Also a then unknown Jacqueline Bisset,who is also British, plays Bullitt's girlfriend.It features a good jazz score by composer Lalo Schifrin.Also fine cinematography by William Fraker.In 2001,The American Film Institute's list of The 100 Greatest American Thrillers of All-Time,"Bullitt" ranked No.36 on that list."The French Connection" and "Dirty Harry" also made the list.
The extras,are the theater movie trailer and a 15 minute documentary about the making of the flick.The movie was released in the fall of 1968 at around the time The Motion Picture Association of America began the rating system."Bullitt" received a "M" rating,for mature audiences, which was later changed to "GP" then to "PG"."Bullitt" has the distinction of being the first flick to use the word "bull****!".Bullitt used it near the climax of of the movie.The tagline for one of the movie posters read,"There are bad cops,there are good cops,then there's 'Bullitt'.Steve McQueen reportedly said that "Bullitt" was his personal favorite film role.At the time,he was one of the top box-office draws in the world and one of highest paid actors.Along with "The Magnificent Seven","The Great Escape" from 1963, "The Sand Pebbles" and "Nevada Smith" from 1966 and "The Thomas Crown Affair" from 1968 and "The Rievers" from 1969,these were my favorites from the late,great Steve McQueen.
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