I saw "Bullitt" many years ago and I liked it. But I saw it again last night and this time I really wondered what all the raving is about. It looks like an overlong episode of a TV cop series rather than a film. The car chase is well-staged, but that is all. It became a cult classic because of cool McQueen, a cool Ford Mustang, a cool score by Lalo Schiffring and the iconic streets of San Francisco. But there is nothing more.
I nearly fell asleep with McQueen pursuing the guy across the airport runaways while dodging the planes. It seems to go on and on and on for ages, and they end up back in the terminal!... Give me "Dirty Harry" anytime. It has lots of action, moments of humour, a psycho you want to douse in petrol and strike a match, and it denounces the flaws of the US judicial system.
I nearly fell asleep with McQueen pursuing the guy across the airport runaways while dodging the planes. It seems to go on and on and on for ages, and they end up back in the terminal!... Give me "Dirty Harry" anytime. It has lots of action, moments of humour, a psycho you want to douse in petrol and strike a match, and it denounces the flaws of the US judicial system.