Decent action movie with the famous car chase and Steve McQueens who makes a perfect low key bad a$$. It could have been a great movie had the plot been a little thicker.

I see it again and I like it better, well shot and directed. Good for the chase done in normal style, not fast and furious style

A super, super stylish slab of police detective action, starring Steve McQueen, right at the height of his status as the coolest man in all of Hollywood. It certainly looks great. Bullitt's picture quality and directorial choices are astounding for a fifty-year-old film, with a heavy, lasting influence on modern action cornerstones. An ambitious opening credits sequence sets that tone early, creative and experimental and ahead of its time, while McQueen's essential wardrobe choices remain fashionable throughout. Perhaps the film's most memorable, and oft-referenced, legacy is its climactic, screeching, white-knuckled muscle car chase through the streets of San Francisco. That scene alone is almost worth the price of admission, a ten-minute thrill ride with tangible mass, unpolished mistakes, curved steel and grim consequences. It almost, almost, polishes over the extra-slow pace, occasional stereotypes and confusing plot turns. Still an entertaining watch, but often as nothing more than a simple, vivid document of everyday life in SF during the late 60s. There's barely enough substance in the police story to fill a twenty-minute network TV crime drama.

McQueen plays it Uber cool, pulling it off as usual, and the car chase centerpiece really is great, but the movie around it is just kind of bare and hollow. There's a fairly interesting story, but it's not pulled off as strongly as people like to pretend. I think people are just hung up on how awesome that chase is, and want desperately for the rest of the movie to be equally good.

Good soundtrack. Good twists. „Real” police work. Good actors. Most notably McQueen. Great chases. Highlight being of course the iconic car chase (with an iconic car). And 60 years later it's fascinating how San Francisco used to be. The movie has its lengths though. It's still fascinating to watch the slower sequences (like that awesome fax machine or whatever this was) that would have been cut from modern movies. It's these sequences that give us a fascinating glimpse into the 60's.