Marc Lee Daily Telegraph (UK) May 8, 2026

McQueen is excellent as the sullen, stony-faced Frank.

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Eddie Harrison film-authority.com Jan 23, 2024 5/5

‘…while the 110 mph car chase is one of cinema’s most visceral scenes, the whole package just sings as a study of driven machismo…

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Danielle Solzman Solzy at the Movies Jan 4, 2023 4/5

Over 54 years after its release, Bullitt remains one of the best thrillers in cinematic history with much thanks to its historic chase sequence.

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KC Star Staff Kansas City Star Mar 2, 2022

Here is lean, mean perfection in the treatment of a screen standard, the detective melodrama. Steve McQueen is in top form as the convention-flouting cop involved in thwarting gangsters.

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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Dec 23, 2021 3/4

...seems to have established the template for a certain kind of cop movie (and television show).

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Andy Howell Film Threat May 11, 2021 10/10

Fast cars, a go-it-alone cop who doesn't trust the system, Steve McQueen, jazz, and 1968 San Francisco - it just doesn't get more quintessentially American than that.

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Alan Edmonds Maclean's Magazine Mar 13, 2021

Good as it is, Bullitt inevitably leaves one wondering: Why doesn't somebody make a movie about the real social significance of cops-and-robbers: police brutality?

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Tom Hutchinson Radio Times Mar 13, 2021 4/5

It's always McQueen's movie. He's snappy, laconic and cynical in equal doses, and his performance is complemented by the assured support of Robert Vaughn as a sleazy politician whose interference gets under the cool cop's skin.

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Harvey G. Cox Tempo (National Council of Churches) Jan 6, 2021

So forget the story. It's confusing and ambiguous anyway, maybe even banal. But let the color, noise, action and hardware put their hex on you.

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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Aug 24, 2020 8/10

McQueen perfects the renegade cop template.

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Manny Farber Artforum Jun 18, 2019

Bullitt keeps a shriek ascending through the last reel.

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John Mahoney The Hollywood Reporter Oct 17, 2018

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.

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Penelope Houston The Spectator Jul 5, 2018

This feeling of life around the edges of the action is BuIlitt's special note.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid May 7, 2010

Bullitt takes a rather simple nugget of a story and turns it into a crime classic through the expert use of location footage, editing, music, mood and timing, not to mention the laconic, stoic performance of ultra-cool star Steve McQueen.

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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Sep 23, 2007 4/5

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Dave Kehr Chicago Reader Mar 1, 2007

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

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Feb 7, 2007 A-

Apart from the classic chase scene, there many other pleasures to be had in this stylish policier, one that changed considerably the entire vocabulary of Hollywood's action-thrillers.

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