Bullitt is a 1968 crime drama starring Steve McQueen as San Francisco Police Lt. Frank Bullitt.\u00a0 He is assigned to a case where he will be responsible for keeping a Chicago mobster, Johnny Ross, safe while he awaits testimony in front of a US Senate panel on organized crime.\u00a0\u00a0 The politician who has set up Ross\u2019s testimony is Walter Chalmers, played by Robert Vaughn.\u00a0 He is an unpleasant manipulative political operative who rubs Bullitt the wrong way.\u00a0 When Ross is critically wounded during a late-night mob hit, Chalmers blames Bullitt even though the attack occurs while Bullitt is off-duty.<\/p>\n
(Spoiler Alert \u2013 Skip down to last paragraph to avoid spoilers and read recommendation)<\/strong><\/p>\n The remainder of the movie is the aftermath of this attack.\u00a0 Ross dies shortly after the hit and Bullitt keeps his death a secret in order to lure the killers back in order to catch them. \u00a0The two hit men escape Bullitt at the hospital but he finally finds them while they are staking him out.\u00a0 What follows is one of the most famous and still one of the best car chase scenes in American film history.\u00a0 Bullitt chases the killers through the streets of San Francisco and onto an expressway.\u00a0 The finale is a fiery crash and explosion when the gangsters plow into a gas station.\u00a0 The fire burns both of their bodies beyond recognition.<\/p>\n When Ross\u2019s girl friend is found strangled Chalmers demands that Bullitt be held responsible for the ongoing disaster and be punished by his superiors.\u00a0 But Bullitt has found very strange evidence in Ross\u2019s girlfriend\u2019s luggage that proves that the man they thought was Ross was a plant named Albert Renick who was working for Ross but whose death was the work of Ross to fake his own death to escape from mob retribution.\u00a0 And now it is believed that Ross will be leaving San Francisco by jet to Europe using Renick\u2019s name.\u00a0 Eventually Ross is found to be on a plane taxiing down the runway.\u00a0 The airliner is recalled and Bullitt and his partner are waiting as the passengers disembark.\u00a0 But Ross forces his way out of the rear door of the plane and jumps to the tarmac and runs off into the night with Bullitt in hot pursuit.\u00a0 Ross takes several shots at Bullitt with a pistol but eventually after a long chase Bullitt corners Ross as he attempts to escape the airport by shooting an airport security guard.\u00a0 Bullitt finishes off Ross with a couple of bullets to the chest and Ross crashes through a glass door and dies.\u00a0 Chalmers sees his plans in ruins and departs in disappointment.\u00a0 Bullitt returns home to find his girlfriend Cathy, played by Jacqueline Bisset, sleeping in his bed, apparently having forgiven him for the sin of being a policeman.\u00a0 The final image is Bullitt staring in a mirror at his own reflection as if to say, \u201cWhat kind of life is this?\u201d<\/p>\n I left some stuff out of the summary because it wasn\u2019t that important.\u00a0 Bullitt\u2019s girlfriend Cathy is upset with him because she barges into a crime scene and sees a woman who has been brutally murdered.\u00a0 She feels that if Bullitt can deal with this type of violence, he can\u2019t be the cool laid-back character who listens to jazz music with her that she thinks he is.\u00a0 This seems moronic to me so I always ignore it when I watch this movie.\u00a0 I hope you will too.<\/p>\n I recommend this movie on the strength of the car chase scene.\u00a0 Sure, the police drama is pretty good and the conflict with Chalmers is okay, I guess, but the car chase is worth the cost of watching the rest of the movie and then some.\u00a0 It\u2019s two late sixties American muscle cars running amok on crowded roads at high speed.\u00a0 If you\u2019re an American male you\u2019ll enjoy it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bullitt is a 1968 crime drama starring Steve McQueen as San Francisco Police Lt. Frank Bullitt.\u00a0 He is assigned to a case where he will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,237],"tags":[3572,3571,43,38,1355,3570,2619],"class_list":["post-17811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","category-reviews","tag-car-chase","tag-jacqueline-bisset","tag-movie-review","tag-review","tag-reviews","tag-robert-vaughn","tag-steve-mcqueen"],"yoast_head":"\n