Bullitt: Critic Reviews

A terrific movie, just right for Steve McQueen -- fast, well acted, written the way people talk.

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.

There isn't much here, and what there is is awfully easy.

Good scripting and excellent direction by Peter Yates maintain deliberately low-key but mounting suspense.

Even though the story almost makes no sense and the Oscar-winning editing has several illogical cuts, Bullitt is an exquisitely satisfying motion picture, particularly if there is still an adolescent boy lodged somewhere in your psyche.

Bullitt takes a rather simple nugget of a story and turns it into a crime classic through the expert use of location footage, editing, music, mood and timing, not to mention the laconic, stoic performance of ultra-cool star Steve McQueen.

Surprisingly austere and very much of its time, Bullitt is a lot less fun and a lot more impressive than you might expect.

Expert chase film, breathless and modern, that sent McQueen to the top of the box office heap.

Apart from the classic chase scene, there many other pleasures to be had in this stylish policier, one that changed considerably the entire vocabulary of Hollywood's action-thrillers.

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.

Menos focado na trama e mais nos procedimentos de seu protagonista, Bullitt busca o realismo constantemente, criando um personagem nao apenas crivel, mas complexo.

A not-very-good movie redeemed by a car chase for the ages.

Stlick, stylish and ineffably cool, this was perhaps McQueen's defining role. Also mention goes to the uncreditied star of the film; San Francisco.

If there is any one of his many movie roles that best exemplifies the McQueen persona, it would have to be this one.

It's more than just that great car chase. The whole film is gritty, down-to-earth and enjoyable.

Steve McQueen is nevertheless very impressive in his role.