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Just like "Wag the dog", this film was nothing special when being released in 1998 and ultimately an average attempt, but just like "Wag the dog" the film got really interesting when the fiction became facts!
Every single soul on Earth will watch this film through a different perspective after the horrible events of the 11th of September 2001! I only got to see this film on television yesterday (27 april 2002) and I must admit that I was both shocked and awestruck by this film which gained real interest and real importance after the 'Twin Towers-incident'. If I would have seen this picture before, I wouldn't have given a damn about it, but now I do. Because what I saw in that film (or at least 85 to 90% of what I saw; leaving just 10 to 15% Hollywood-material to keep things commercial enough to sell it), would eventually really happen. And after a situation like that, you see things differently.
The same happened with "Wag the dog". Before the incident, it was merely an average picture (with some very fine acting though), but it wasn't until after the incident that that picture got the full attention for telling the truth BEFORE it actually happened. The same goes for this one here.
Acting performances are great. Bruce Willis isn't bad, but he's nothing comparing to Denzel Washington who gives one of his best performances ever. The rest of the cast (especially Tony Shalhoub) is believable too.
Watch this film (especially when you're American) and you'll notice that you'll be shocked by what the film has to tell you (in case you didn't like the film a couple of years ago). ... the horror ... ... the horror ... ...
Every single soul on Earth will watch this film through a different perspective after the horrible events of the 11th of September 2001! I only got to see this film on television yesterday (27 april 2002) and I must admit that I was both shocked and awestruck by this film which gained real interest and real importance after the 'Twin Towers-incident'. If I would have seen this picture before, I wouldn't have given a damn about it, but now I do. Because what I saw in that film (or at least 85 to 90% of what I saw; leaving just 10 to 15% Hollywood-material to keep things commercial enough to sell it), would eventually really happen. And after a situation like that, you see things differently.
The same happened with "Wag the dog". Before the incident, it was merely an average picture (with some very fine acting though), but it wasn't until after the incident that that picture got the full attention for telling the truth BEFORE it actually happened. The same goes for this one here.
Acting performances are great. Bruce Willis isn't bad, but he's nothing comparing to Denzel Washington who gives one of his best performances ever. The rest of the cast (especially Tony Shalhoub) is believable too.
Watch this film (especially when you're American) and you'll notice that you'll be shocked by what the film has to tell you (in case you didn't like the film a couple of years ago). ... the horror ... ... the horror ... ...
We all know that the '60s wasn't the greatest decade of Hollywood. By 1963 Hollywood decided to give up on those big-budget, massive-movies such as "The Ten Commandments", "Ben-Hur", "El Cid" or "Lawrence of Arabia" simply because the 1963-movie "Cleopatra" had become the most expensive movie of all time. The release of this gigantic love-drama immediately killed off this particular genre. Hollywood was left empty-handed for a couple of years and that's where Great-Brittain came in.
After this change, the movie business had changed too and was then divided into two different kinds of categories. At one hand, you still had some very good American movies such as "The great escape", "The dirty dozen" and "Planet of the apes". Unfortunately, the 60's was the ultimate invasion of Great-Brittain in America; both in music (with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Erik Clapton) and in film. America had its share of great movies, but it felt as if Great-Brittain had total control over the '60s. Not only did they begin the greatest film series of all time in 1962 with the release of the first Bond-film, but there were also many British directors who came up with extra-ordinary movies. Alfred Hitchcock with "Psycho" and "The Birds" and Stanley Kubrick with classics such as "Spartacus" and "2001: A space odyssey". By the beginning of the '70s, America would take full control again as many fantastic American directors and actors would start their career or have their breakthrough. Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese are only a few of the utterly important names who would dominate the movie business. Hollywood had a great time making movies in the '70s, but the '60s were quite different for them. And this film here is living proof of that.
"Bullitt" is your typical cop-movie. The script is boring, there aren't any interesting characters whatsoever and there's only one great scene worth-mentioning; and that is the 5-minute car chase-scene that truly looks fantastic! But apart from that, there's nothing to look forward too. One has to wait too long for something to happen and when that moment arrives, you're often left empty-handed. Steve McQueen tries his best to uplift the quality of this boring action movie, but fails. Simply put: this movie could have been a lot better if they only had added more action scenes. This isn't a actors' movie and that's why all of the characters and their acting performances fail. Maybe back in the '60s this film looked interesting, but I got used to watch so many dull cop-action-movies over the years that this picture has got nothing new to offer and contains a lot of things I've seen before.
After this change, the movie business had changed too and was then divided into two different kinds of categories. At one hand, you still had some very good American movies such as "The great escape", "The dirty dozen" and "Planet of the apes". Unfortunately, the 60's was the ultimate invasion of Great-Brittain in America; both in music (with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Erik Clapton) and in film. America had its share of great movies, but it felt as if Great-Brittain had total control over the '60s. Not only did they begin the greatest film series of all time in 1962 with the release of the first Bond-film, but there were also many British directors who came up with extra-ordinary movies. Alfred Hitchcock with "Psycho" and "The Birds" and Stanley Kubrick with classics such as "Spartacus" and "2001: A space odyssey". By the beginning of the '70s, America would take full control again as many fantastic American directors and actors would start their career or have their breakthrough. Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese are only a few of the utterly important names who would dominate the movie business. Hollywood had a great time making movies in the '70s, but the '60s were quite different for them. And this film here is living proof of that.
"Bullitt" is your typical cop-movie. The script is boring, there aren't any interesting characters whatsoever and there's only one great scene worth-mentioning; and that is the 5-minute car chase-scene that truly looks fantastic! But apart from that, there's nothing to look forward too. One has to wait too long for something to happen and when that moment arrives, you're often left empty-handed. Steve McQueen tries his best to uplift the quality of this boring action movie, but fails. Simply put: this movie could have been a lot better if they only had added more action scenes. This isn't a actors' movie and that's why all of the characters and their acting performances fail. Maybe back in the '60s this film looked interesting, but I got used to watch so many dull cop-action-movies over the years that this picture has got nothing new to offer and contains a lot of things I've seen before.
