This is an enjoyable film, but it's weak on story line and lack of action. The exception of course is a great, lengthy car chase segment in and out of San Francisco. Steve McQueen as Bullitt doesn't have a whole lot to do here. He was assigned to guard a witness in a trial, but early in the movie the witness is killed. The rest of the movie is McQueen wandering around SF trying to figure out what happened and why. It seemed to me that Bullit was good at finding suspects, but not so good at keeping them. Generally when he finds them again, he ends up shooting or killing them so he never gets to fill in the plot holes. Robert Vaughn was appropriately slimy as an annoying DA. Still the movie had interesting camera work, and enjoyable scenery of San Francisco in the 1970s. It was a nice way to pass the time for a couple of hours.
Review of Bullitt
