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Bullitt

Bullitt

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: McQueen, Mustang, Murder and Machismo....
Review: ....roar them engines, pump up the testosterone and fasten your friggin' seat belts for one of the best chase scenes ever done on film, per-i-od! Shadings of this was kinda captured in that Cage/Jolie/Duvall movie made a few years back. (With the Shelby Cobra Mustang and all.) But, no disrepect intended, that will never come close that high octane chase with turtlenecked McQueen in the hills of San Francisco. Mebbe the 1st Blues Brothers (but that was done for wink, winks) movie.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A Very Good Film!
Review: This was a very good police movie.You have a detective played
very capably by McQueen who is guarding an informant. His subject
is killed by hit men. The Detective finds out that the informant
is not really who he was supposed to be.This adds to the level
of suspicion in the film. Also very noteworthy was the car chase on the streets of San Fransisco. This will always stand as one of the great car chase scenes that you will ever see. You also
have some very good actors featured in this movie.Jacqueline Bissett,Robert Duvall and Robert Vaughn are very good in this
movie. This is a very good movie. Do not miss it.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Steve Mcqueen !
Review: I dont know which car chase scene I like the best,this one or the one in the "Seven-ups" with Roy Scheider.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Classic, Hard-boiled Steve McQueen-a must see.
Review: Bullitt is one of Steve McQueen's best movies ever.

McQueen plays a San Francisco police officer assigned to protect a mob informer prior to testimony. When the man is killed while in police custody, He smells a major league rat. When he further learns the man they were guarding wasn't even the right guy to begin with, it really hits the fan.

The film features a first rate suspense story. It also features two of the most famous "chase" scenes in film history, a car chase through the streets of San Francisco and a one-on-one chase at San Francisco international airport.

The supporting cast is absolutely terrific. The acting is excellent. Although there is very little actual violence, what's there has tremendous impact. This is a movie that grabs your imagination while simultaneously kicking you in the gut.

There is one major flaw-the love interest between McQueen and Jacqueline Bisset is truly pathetic. It sticks out like a toilet bowl in a field of wildflowers and adds not one darn thing to the plot. There is no chemistry between the two whatsoever. Fortunately, it is a very minor part of the film and is easily overlooked.

This is classic McQueen, and any fan of the suspense genre cannot afford to miss this movie.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: A great movie, but this is a hacked version
Review: If you're expecting the original flick, this is not it. At the end of the "Chase Scene", the Charger is seen launched into the air and into the gas station. In the original movie, they messed up and the station was blown up a fraction of a second before the car hit it. In this version, they have altered the scene and you never see it. My only question, WHY?!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best car chase ever put on film.
Review: Overall a great combination of writing, acting and special effects (high speed car chase) with a gritty realism that still holds up today. Two of the best muscle cars duke it out, Mustang vs. Charger, and the end of the Charger is high octane. Too bad!! If you are looking for action with some intense cool, then check out Mr McQueen (cool) and Robert Vaughn (greasy slick) in this great flick. Enjoy!!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Do not use sub-titles
Review: Yes, this movie has it all tension, good actors, notorious car chase. However, it all was ruined by turning DVD sub-titles on - plot/action simply does not hold any water.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: the greatest famous chase
Review: wow what a chase scene the schreeches the jumps the skids this movie has it all with the chase scene. Even if you don't like the rest of the film the chase scene is enough to buy this dvd. All i ever do is jump right to the chase scene anyways. For those hardcore car lovers and liked gone in sixty seconds the original should take this dvd quickly.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: It's about as exiting as watching Mr. Rogers.
Review: Steve McQueen in my opinion has made lotsa dull films (not The Great Escape and The Magnificent Seven.) Most of the film he looks at dead people at the morgue, and little else. He barely pays attention to his case. This movie is too [...] detailed. I remember them showing him in the grossery store 16 times. The film slowly got tiresomely slow. I was squirming in my seat 37 minutes before the car chase. When it came, all I heard was roaring motors. It was so damn pointless that after the car chase I decided to fast foward to the airport shootout. Big mistake! It was just as slow-paced as the car chase, only worse. The film is just too terrible for me to talk of anymore. I recommend it to [...] fans of dated films. Peace out!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: McQueen's best role in one of the best crime films ever
Review: Steve McQueen, though he's been gone for more than twenty years, strikes me as the kind of actor that Hollywood doesn't seem to have anymore: cool, low-key, professional, almost business-like. And the best example of this is in BULLITT, one of Hollywood's best police dramas ever.

McQueen is a San Francisco cop assigned by a rather ruthless politico (Robert Vaughn) to guard a mob witness for the weekend at a hotel near the Embarcadero. But when two hitmen break in and shoot the witness (who later dies) and one of McQueen's partners, it is his duty to find the shooters and keep Vaughn off his back. Driving around in his Dodge Charger, McQueen spots the two hitmen, resulting in what remains perhaps the single most hair-raising car chase in cinematic history.

Although the killers bite the dust at the end of the chase, McQueen learns that the man who was shot at the hotel was actually a decoy, NOT the real witness. Even more, the decoy's wife has been killed in San Mateo by that witness. McQueen and his partner (Don Gordon) learn that the witness plans to skip town, but they corner the man at San Francisco International Airport in a taut, action and suspense-laden finale.

Though it may seem old-fashioned, released as it was in 1968, BULLITT is superb entertainment, incisively helmed by British director Peter Yates and excellently photographed on location by master cinematographer William Fraker. Lalo Schifrin's classic jazz score gives this film the perfect atmosphere, and Frank Keller justly won an Oscar for his film editing--including, of course, the 11-minute, 115 mile-per-hour car chase. McQueen is, of course, so cool under fire, and Vaughn is ruthlessness personified.

Not too terribly violent (the mature 'PG' rating is in effect here), BULLITT remains a benchmark action movie. Fans of classic action films should not miss this.


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