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I watched "Bullitt" the other night on AMC. This is a cool movie. McQueen plays SF homicide cop Frank Bullitt. He's specially requested to protect a mob informant by D.A. and aspiring politician Robert Vaughn, and things go bad. Tersely written (a necessity in a McQueen picture), Peter Yates shrugs off any commitment to pace and normal, ordered character explication. So, we learn about McQueen slowly, in leisurely views of his life as a single cop (with a hot professional girlfriend, Jaqueline Bisset). In extended sequences, we actually see him shop and have dinner in a progressive jazz club. Interspersed are crisp action sequences that are the opposite of the gaudy Bruckheimer/Bay extravaganzas. In this vein, and similarly cool, I also recommend "The Seven-Ups", "Point Blank", and "Harper."
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