Bullitt [HD DVD]
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Movie Reviews of Bullitt [HD DVD]
Movie Review: Bullitt (HD DVD)
Summary: 5 Stars
Being this was my favorite chase scene of all time, the HD version was excellent !Movie Review: Wonderful experience.
Summary: 5 Stars
HD gives old movies a new lease of life. A must buy for movie buffs.Movie Review: Great movie, but HD-DVD adds nothing vs. DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great film for Steve McQueen fans and if, like me, you did not already have a DVD of Bullitt and have an HD-DVD player, you might as well get this disk on Amazon's two-for-one offer since it's only $10, then. However, otherwise just get the DVD version as there is nothing the HD-DVD adds. This is an old movie and short of a Ted Turner style make-over, there is nothing that can be done to make it look better than the DVD version already does. The movie, in HD-DVD, is quite grainy and not sharp...just like on DVD.
I rate it a five star for the movie and three star for the HD-DVD format and average to four starts.
Movie Review: Not impressed!
Summary: 2 Stars
Somewhere inside the overlong, 114-minute Bullitt there is a brisk 90-minute long film desperate to get out. But as it is, it's seriously overlong with nothing to sustain it. Many pointless scenes come and go with loads of long, indulgent tracking shots goose-up the running time. I almost nodded-off a few times, I honestly don't see what all the fuss is about regarding this film.
The paper-thin story has Detective Bullitt trying to determine how a Mob informant in Police custody managed to be killed (he's not actually killed until about an hour later though). A local politician (Robery Vaughn, who didn't really want to do the film) acts as the token bureaucrat, standing in the way of getting things done. But getting WHAT done exactly? In 114 minutes almost NOTHING happens in this damn movie! Instead of mystery, clues, police procedure, shoot-outs and problem-solving we're treated to scene after scene of...not much. Bullitt eats food at the hospital, he goes shopping for celery and TV dinners, he hangs around with his girlfriend (a completely pointless character played by Jaqueline Bissett) and sometimes takes a passing interest in the case. About 80-minutes into this bore he is FINALLY involved in a car chase (THE car chase that everyone raves about) that 'tears up' the streets of San Francisco.
I don't understand why this film has so much adoration or why all the fans proclaim it's 'the original and best', 'the one that started it all' or any other generic soundbite you can think of. There were cop movies before this, there were car chases before this. What exactly is Bullitt credited with 'starting'?
A sense of being cool, calm and collected doesn't turn water into wine. Bullitt is plain, repetitive, agonizingly slow and almost completely without a plot. Don't consider me a philistine or someone who has been brainwashed by the over-edited nature of modern films where we're guaranteed and explosion every five minutes. I appreciate films from all eras and from all backgrounds. But Bullitt is just way, way overrated certainly does not deserve the high regard it's been lauded with. A real disappointment.
Aside from a few reeaally grainy shots, the HD DVD features a fine 1.85:1 1080p transfer with Dolby Digital Plus Mono sound. A fair amount of extras too.
Movie Review: Bullitt = Bad
Summary: 1 Stars
Not to offend anyone who liked this film, but I simply couldn't find anything inherently good about it. Except for the car chase, but then again, couldn't the two villains have had some sort of dialog! For the entire car chase the two don't utter a word! Unbelievable.
Bad script and wooden acting = bad movie.
The movie came out in '68, one year after I was born and I had always heard great things about the chase scene, but to me this alone doesn't warrant purchasing this film. Sorry.
Should have bought the SD-DVD! I should add that the transfer was pretty good.