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

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

| Mar 1, 2007

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

| Mar 1, 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

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 6, 2005

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.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 23, 2004

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

| May 20, 2003

One of the cinema's very best car-chase sequences -- set amid the hilly, windy San Francisco streets -- caps this quintessential Steve McQueen policier.

| Mar 10, 2003

If more attention had been paid to plot and characterisation, this would have been a great rather than a good movie. Even so, it stands as a cinematic landmark.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2001