‘…while the 110 mph car chase is one of cinema’s most visceral scenes, the whole package just sings as a study of driven machismo…

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 23, 2024

Over 54 years after its release, Bullitt remains one of the best thrillers in cinematic history with much thanks to its historic chase sequence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 4, 2023

Here is lean, mean perfection in the treatment of a screen standard, the detective melodrama. Steve McQueen is in top form as the convention-flouting cop involved in thwarting gangsters.

| Mar 2, 2022

...seems to have established the template for a certain kind of cop movie (and television show).

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 23, 2021

Fast cars, a go-it-alone cop who doesn't trust the system, Steve McQueen, jazz, and 1968 San Francisco - it just doesn't get more quintessentially American than that.

| Original Score: 10/10 | May 11, 2021

Good as it is, Bullitt inevitably leaves one wondering: Why doesn't somebody make a movie about the real social significance of cops-and-robbers: police brutality?

| Mar 13, 2021

It's always McQueen's movie. He's snappy, laconic and cynical in equal doses, and his performance is complemented by the assured support of Robert Vaughn as a sleazy politician whose interference gets under the cool cop's skin.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 13, 2021

So forget the story. It's confusing and ambiguous anyway, maybe even banal. But let the color, noise, action and hardware put their hex on you.

| Jan 6, 2021

McQueen perfects the renegade cop template.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 24, 2020

Bullitt keeps a shriek ascending through the last reel.

| Jun 18, 2019

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.

| Oct 17, 2018

This feeling of life around the edges of the action is BuIlitt's special note.

| Jul 5, 2018

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.

| May 7, 2010

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

| May 5, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2007

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

| Mar 1, 2007

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

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 1, 2007

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

| Mar 1, 2007

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.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 7, 2007

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.

| Feb 9, 2006