Ironically, the ultimate Western of all was made decades after its hayday. This is captivating for all, not just fans of the genre.
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02/19/08
Unforgiven (1992)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:8
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.6/10
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
1 - 6 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticA classic Western for the ages.
02/19/08
Top CriticUnforgiven is a most entertaining western that pays homage to the great tradition of movie westerns while surreptitiously expressing a certain amount of skepticism.
05/20/03
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 CriticJumps adroitly between the macho and anti-macho, the romantic and anti-romantic.
01/01/00
Top CriticBy 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
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