Excellent!!!
One of the greatest of the hard-boiled police detectives with perhaps the greatest car chase scenes in movie history.

Car chase, but not much else.
Bullitt (Peter Yates, 1968)

Forty years after its release, Bullitt is remembered as having the best car chase in film history, running almost ten minutes and setting the stage for many of the car chases (and parodies, such as the wonderful remote-control car chase in The Dead Pool) that have followed it in action movies. Much of the reason the car chase is so well remembered, it seems to me, is that much of the rest of the movie is instantly forgettable; plot holes large enough to drive a Mustang through, some characters who should have been left out of the script altogether, a meandering storyline that tries its hardest not to go anywhere, the whole nine yards. But man, what a car chase.

The story: a mob informant is shot while Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen) is supposed to be guarding him. Bullitt wants revenge. In order to get it, he needs to make sure the guy stays alive, because slimy elected official Chalmers (Robert Vaughn) will jump on Bullitt with cement shoes if the guy dies. That's pretty much all you need to know about the plot, which is paper-thin (and yet still manages to have holes). There's a completely useless subplot with Bullitt's girlfriend that seems to exist only to give Jacqueline Bisset screen time. Which is worth noting if you're a Bisset fan.

This is very much a turn-your-brain-off-and-enjoy it action flick. McQueen glowers, Vaughn oozes a trail of nastiness, and a cadre of Hollywood's sixties and seventies best (including Robert Duvall, Norman Fell, Simon Oakland, Vic Tayback, and many, many others) play up. It's empty calories, with little character development and less attention paid to the plot. But hey, it's an action movie. You want cerebral? Look elsewhere. ***

Better than Ever!
Well,for a Movie thats 40 years old ,this Blu-Ray edition is Incredible ..if you own the Original and now your into Blu-ray ,this is A MUST HAVE ...Steve McQueen Looks Awesome ...and That Car Chase ...Phil Dantoni your the Best.

Bullit
Got it for my man, he loved it. He's watched it twice already and he's only had it for a week.

Faster than a Speeding Bullet
Fete of Death
"Bullitt," one of the best crime thrillers ever filmed, also has one of the best--if not the best--car chase scenes ever shot. Cineastes refer to it simply as "The Chase." No other words required. Who can forget the immortal breathtaking dual between the killers' black-on-black Dodge Charger and Lt. Frank Bullitt's 1968 Mustang GT 390 as they roar up and down the steep hills of San Francisco? McQueen's Highland Green Mustang literally flies over the hills and, let's face it, puts the Charger to shame.

Not only that, "Bullitt" is a taut cop thriller well directed by Peter Yates with a fascinating police procedural script and a pulsing, jazzy score by Lalo Schifrin.

And don't forget the King of Cool himself Steve McQueen. I would go out on a limb and say "Bullitt" is his best movie. Certainly, it has his best role. Too, Robert Vaughn's performance as a smarmy and slick district attorney is dead on.

Like McQueen's stripped-down, hopped-up Mustang GT 390, the lean, mean "Bullitt" hits on all eight cylinders.