There's not much dramatic urgency apart from the revisionist context.
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02/05/07
Unforgiven (1992)
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Reviews Counted:55
Fresh:53
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.6/10
Consensus: As both director and star, Clint Eastwood strips away decades of Hollywood varnish applied to the Wild West, and emerges with a series of harshly eloquent statements about the nature of violence.
Synopsis: In Clint Eastwood's acclaimed Western, Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman), a sadistic, dictatorial sheriff, enforces gun control on a tiny frontier town, doling out his own brand of due process as... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris
Director: Clint Eastwood
Reviews for Unforgiven
By now ... Eastwood has little more than a paint-by-numbers approach to acting. As a result, we relate to Munny more as a compendium of Eastwood's earlier characters.
01/01/00
Top CriticThat implacable moral balance, in which good eventually silences evil, is at the heart of the Western, and Eastwood is not shy about saying so.
08/03/02
Top CriticOne of Eastwood's finest outings to date, an elegiac western that ironically undermines the conventions of the genre, only to deliver a finale as legendary as the shootout at the O.K. Corral.
07/30/03
Arguably the greatest western since Sam Peckinpah hung up his stirrups.
02/19/08
Ironically, the ultimate Western of all was made decades after its hayday. This is captivating for all, not just fans of the genre.
02/19/08
Top Critic[One] of the best movies of the nineties.
10/03/02
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12/01/03
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11/17/03
No review available.
01/12/04
Aside from being one of the highlights of Eastwood's long career, this film unquestionably offers one of his top directing efforts.
01/01/00
Unforgiven began Clint Eastwood's current apology tour for his cinematic violence.
05/01/09
Gene Hackman and Clint Eastwood face off in one of the best westerns ever made -- make that the best western ever made -- produced some 50 years after the prime of the western era.
01/01/00
A complex and haunting Old-West morality tale...Thanks Clint, for once again making my day.
03/03/06
Along with Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller, as authentic a depiction of a Wild West town as you are likely to find.
01/04/03
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11/03/08
In Clint's vision of the Old West all parties are tainted by violence and the need for revenge.
03/08/04
Jumps adroitly between the macho and anti-macho, the romantic and anti-romantic.
01/01/00
Top CriticDark and somber in thematics and visuals, this Western is a personal work for Eastwood, in which he desconstructs his own mythic violent image, one that made him a star in the 1960s; it's well-acted by Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris.
12/19/06
Eastwood has cast his lot with one of the finest screenplays to have come along in many years, and the result stands him, unembarrassed, in the company of greatness.
11/12/01
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