somewhere inside the overlong and 114 minute bullitt there be a brisk 90 minute long film desperate to get out . but a it be and it seriously overlong with nothing to sustain it . many pointless scene come and go with load of long and indulgent track shot goose up the running time . i almost nod off a few time and i honestly do not see what all the fuss be about regard this film . the paper thin story have detective bullitt try to determine how a mob informant in police custody manage to be kill ( he not actually kill until about an hour later though ) . a local politician ( robery vaughn and who do not really want to do the film ) act a the token bureaucrat and standing in the way of get thing do . but get what do exactly . in 114 minute almost nothing happen in this damn movie . instead of mystery and clue and police procedure and shoot out and problem solving be treat to scene after scene of . not much . bullitt eat food at the hospital and he go shop for celery and tv dinner and he hang around with his girlfriend ( a completely pointless character play by jaqueline bissett ) and sometimes take a passing interest in the case . about 80 minute into this bore he be finally involve in a car chase ( the car chase that everyone rave about ) that tear up the street of san francisco . i do not understand why this film have so much adoration or why all the fan proclaim it the original and best and the one that start it all or any other generic soundbite you can think of . there be cop movie before this and there be car chase before this . what exactly be bullitt credit with tarting . a sense of be cool and calm and collect doesn not turn water into wine . bullitt be plain and repetitive and agonizingly slow and almost completely without a plot . don not consider me a philistine or someone who have be brainwash by the over edited nature of modern film where be guarantee and explosion every five minute . i appreciate film from all era and from all background . but bullitt be just way and way overrate certainly do not deserve the high regard it be laud with . a real disappointment .