Bullitt (1968). Bullitt Time. 

Dodge Charger, not known for their handling but well known for having more than four hubcaps.

When Simon Oakland was waiting and contemplating, I expected his inner monologue to be "KOLCHAK!!!"

..the ''Matrix'' of it's time (in terms of influence and coolness). Still listening to the soundtrack every now and then...

Nice one Stam Fine. A well informed review that acknowledges some of the trailblazing aspects of this movie whilst acknowledging some of the less remarkable aspects of it.

Hey, it's my favourite RU-vid movie reviewer with one of my favourite films! I like the fact that there's not that much drama between the characters, sometimes less is more, although Hollywood won't stop trying to prove me wrong.

Back in the early 2010s, I was flying across the Atlantic, and there was no modern film available on the plane that interested me. But this film was, so I watched it and enjoyed it.

Never met a cop named Bullitt, dentist named Drill, or a sanitation worker named Dump, but I did have an optometrist named Pieper (pronounced “peeper”).

One fun thing to do watching this film is have a drink every time you see a green VW Beetle in the car chase scene.

But will Stam mention the hubcaps? No, this time the hubcaps were spared. All 5 of them.

My favorite year for mustang in Fastback. Dad had bought one in the early 90s. Straight no rust and stock 4 speed. It was going to be mine eventually but it was totaled out parked on the street by a drunk driver. He passed during Covid and while the 69 fastback I’m finishing up is a nice consolation, I still wish that first one wasn’t ruined. Love the story of the movie car and how it resurfaced.

Excellent Review .... and there's nothing the pencil pushers at Utube head office can do about it! 😄😄😄😄😄

Mrs. Dorothy Renick R.I.P.3:07

This delivery is hilarious

I LOVED this film. I used to show it to my intro to film class at my college, believe it or not. :) True story.

This is a thriller within a police procedural. It's a fine movie. Don Gordon is very good as Bullit's side-kick.

McBullit, in this department we do things by the book! > Bye book. BLAM!

Great presentation! And there's nothing those stuffed-shirts at RU-vid can do about it! :)

I think Steve McQueen's best role was as "The Cincinnati Kid". It doesn't hurt that it had a solid story and some of the best supporting actors around.

The first movie I saw where somebody said bull shit. I was in high school at the time.

I thought he was having a piss at the end too. Honestly, I think that would have been more appropriate for the character!

The "maverick cop going his own way and scorning the top brass" schtick was a fairly well-worn trope from classic noir days, but it's true that Bullitt was the first to do it in the New Hollywood Era. Note also how the airport tarmac foot chase was borrowed by Michael Mann for "Heat".

0:50 I appreciate splitting the difference by pronouncing "lieutenant" as "lettenant" in the spirit of Anglospheric unity.

This is a great movie! And there is nothing my rational mind can do about it.

This excellent Stam Fine Review is Number One with a Bullitt !

this movie made me think they didn't know what exciting was in the 60s until I saw Two Lane Blacktop. Cuz as a car chase movie it suxxxx but I never thought to go back and appreciate it as proto diirty harry etceteri etcetera.

Steven Spielberg is making a Bullitt movie, not a remake but another story with the Frank Bullitt character, while I love Spielberg as a director (he orginally wanted to cast Steve McQueen in 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' in 1977, but the actor turned him down), I am not so sure about Bradley Cooper playing the role. I don't know if it will be a contemporary or period setting yet, however.

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@Stam Fine, I would love it if you'd review "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"!

There was nothing those stuffed algorithms at RU-vid could do about it.

I'm sure I remember getting up at stupid o'clock in the morning (something like 4am) when I was a kid to watch a test transmission of "Bullitt" on the about-to-launch Channel 4 in the UK in November 1982. And there isn't a damn thing those moderators at Wikipedia can do about it. Countdown, The Vorderman, "Walter" or no.

McQueen bought the 1968 Mustang GT Dark Highland Green for $3,500 and sold for $3.74 million after his death.

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Hm! An excellent "No Holds Barred" review! Personally, I had forgotten that Robert Wagner was on this cast; he and McQueen had worked together on "The Magnificent Seven" and so it was nice seeing them play with each other in a whole new setting and with different dynamics in terms of the motivations. And RE: The End of the Hays Code; *Very Astute,* and directly to the heart of the matter. No coincidence either that this is the period of time which launched a lot of "Independent" film makers like Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. Any plans to cover the films produced by American Zoetrope?

He’d be dead Twelve years later. Super cool McQueen

7:51 YUP... they left that 'oops' moment in the film...

Now I'm no expert on American policing, but isn't shooting the witness that you were assigned to protect generally frowned upon?

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Buddy why dont make a video about the movie countdown with robeet duvall and james caan that movie is so underrated

a better movie The Driver (1978) with Ryan O'neil

I liked bullet good car chase! Prefer the Italian job again good car chase lighter film OK I was a youth but first impressions stick and there's not a thing anyone can do about it

I have a very specific fetish: I love to watch all of the films released during the year of my birth, 1968. Compared to 2001: space odyssey, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, planet of the apes, and many others, this is not the best film.

What did mentioning his race have to do with anything

Bullitt kinda sucks lets be honest.

Two heavily armed professional killers. So what was he planning on doing if he caught them?

consider doing reviews of 'Basic Instinct' & 'Sliver' & 'Jade' I think those could be hilarious. 'Jade' even has a hilly car chase!

Glad you bit the Bullit and reviewed this film.

This is what Superman means when he says “Faster than a speeding Bullitt” lol

Film Four channel in the UK once placed Bullitt in their "Anti-Hero" season, along with the one, the only original Get Carter. I can see their point, they're not heroes in the respective movies, Bullitt doing deals with a mobster among other things and Carter is more villain than hero, depending on what you think of the character. Would be great if you did a review of Get Carter, of course I mean the original only.

_Duel_ would be a good one.

The fact he carries a pistol but doesn't use it till the very end of the movie puts Frank Bullitt in a different hero category. And his name is Bullitt lol.

My prize for most appropriate employee name goes to Phil Longnecker, who used to be the tour guide at Anchor Steam Brewery (in SF funnily enough). Really born for that role

Jake Bullitt...Cybernautics.

Great to see a Car Superstar like Bullitt’s Mustang that has an open-wheel diff, you’ll notice it’s a single spinner when you see he’s floored it and only spun the one. Single-spinner love! ✌️❤️👍

The only thing better than this movie was its Polish poster. The Polish School of Posters was an amazing period of time.

Now review the film without saying "Bullit" !

The thing about Bullitt is it's a totally American concept but it's "European" in flavor. Less conventional than one thinks.

I left a comment, and there's nothing those bean counters at RU-vid can do about it.

Excellent as always. You may at some point want to check out a very overlooked police procedural "The Laughing Policeman" (1973) starring Walter Matthau and Bruce Dern. Cheers.

Enjoyed your video and there's nothing those stuffed shirts at RU-vid can do about it.

This has been pointed out a few times, but if you watch the car chase carefully, you will see Steve McQueen's car pass the same green VW beetle about 3 times. 😁

Steve McQueen Bullitt is a good Film my favorite is Sam Peckinpah The Getaway Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw husband and wife bank robbers very good. But it was great characters actors Ben Johnson Al Lettieri Dub Taylor who pull there's weight back then they had good character actor and actress now seen to be a rear breed. Steve McQueen said that if he never had become a actor he would have been a bank robber. In the film Papillon Steve McQueen gave his best performance playing Papillon all round good character actors great film McQueen should have gotten a Oscar her his performance and the Director too. I read the book Papillon Henri Charrriere real life convict Papillon when hearing there's making Papillon into a film. Henri Charriere said there's only one person who could play me Steve McQueen.

I'm leaving this comment, and there's nothing the pencil pushers at your RU-vid channel can do about it.

A great film - and there's no way those other reviewers with their fancy dan larger words and better editing techniques will top this review!

The last bit had me ROTFL

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7:51 The strangest editing decision to hide a scratch between the cars. Why didn't they cut the shot a second before? Why leave a couple of frames of the crash and edit the previous car for a second? A guy with thick glasses and a cigarette in his mouth made that decision, and until the day he died he boasted of being perfect.

Going from a UN secret agent to an US senator... poor, poor Napoleon Solo.

No kidding, I know an eye surgeon whose last name is Blinder.

great review, thank you!

I'm going to write a comment, and theres nothing the toadies at Stam Fine can do about it!

Best car chase for me

Thank you for taking the piss out of b'Bullet.

Jake, jake bullet

Awesome ❤

The one, the only car chase scene you ever need, will NEVER, EVER be bettered!! Balls t' Fast & The Furious!! 😉🤭

Nah Yeah Nah Mnah Mnah do do dee doo doo

The cartoon Fairly Odd Parents said it best. He's a lone cop. Living on the edge. Breaking all the rules.

Stylish? Totally. Cool? Absolutely. Influencial? Without doubt. But I just find it boring....😢

"It's pronounced B'leeet! B'LEEEEEET!!"

My major problem of this movie is why Bullitt troubles himself so much with spring onions, when all he eats are TV dinners.

I had the same reaction as Stam - I get why it's famous (and I am a huge Steve McQueen fan), but I don't think it aged well. If you want to see a better Steve McQueen movie, watch Magnificent 7 or Great Escape.

Norman Fell - Mr. Roper!

Seems like they should have been setting this up as an American James Bond franchise.

Excellent review! I kept thinking that the film really was missing something. Perhaps a laugh tract. IDK.

Outside of the disaster flicks, this may the best - and best used - cast ever.

Kathy's biggest obstacle isn't Bull'ts wall of stoicism, it's getting through that bowl of dry shredded wheat.

The Naked Gun & Bullett. "I pulled out my 45... when I find the other 7 cards, I can have a proper game of solitaire..."

I remember watching it and while the chase was indeed a car chase, it felt pretty underwhelming for "the greatest chase scene ever filmed"

Blazing Saddles is worth 20years of late fees. Love the internal dialogue

When Steve McQueen said “It’s bullit time!” and then bullit through the movie I realised it was one of the movies of all times. Memes aside, it’s one of my all time favorites. This movie is just so well done and full if style, like a time capsule, even though it could be considered a bit “old style” back in the day.

One of the best Hey it’s that guy movies😊

Car looks like an absolute Sh%t Box! But it's actually a worked, custom Mustang, as mentioned with an open-diff. Really it's a lot like Elanor... I think maybe the inspiration for Elanor?

I loved this movie when I was a kid because it was filmed in SF, where I grew up.

Bullitt + Al Pacino = Serpico. Peace All

Apart from the car chase it was a very boring movie

Back in the 90s I was out with friends and we ended up at Blockbuster to rent a movie. I suggested Bullitt based on everything I'd heard about the car chase. We watched it, and I apologized for suggesting the movie, because that car chase is... not good. Frankly, it goes on too long, and it's boring. It's been a quarter of a century since then, and I still can't fathom why anyone talks about it.

Those two hitmen in the Dodge Charger were Barry Goldwater and Nikita Khrushchev.

If "Bullitt" was made today, it would be "ironic" and the macho name would be a constant source of jokes. Also, it would be terrible. Props to movie makers who can make a movie with a straight face.

Once I looked harder at the plot, I realised this film makes no sense at all. Why is Bullitt even chasing those two men? It starts with them chasing him. He has no better plan than a dog chasing a car: how would he pull them over, given his car is unmarked; what would he do if he succeeded, and isn't he a terrible cop by forcing his quarry into a lethal crash? There are myriad plot holes, inconsistencies and absurdities that wreck the whole film, and McQueen simply can't act at all.