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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... 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 he sees fit. When he denies justice to the prostitutes of the town brothel, one of whom has been slashed by a client, the women hire Bill Munny (Eastwood), a reformed gunslinger, to gain vengeance. However, Munny must contend with his new moral code in the face of revisiting the life he left behind. Eastwood's directorial masterpiece also stars Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris. [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett, Frances Fisher
Director: Clint Eastwood
Director: Clint Eastwood
Producer: Clint Eastwood
Screenwriter: David Peoples
Composer: Lennie Niehaus
Reviews for Unforgiven
In Clint's vision of the Old West all parties are tainted by violence and the need for revenge.
One 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.
Unforgiven is a most entertaining western that pays homage to the great tradition of movie westerns while surreptitiously expressing a certain amount of skepticism.
The action scenes have an almost documentary realism about them. Up until the final gun battle the film seems like a very authentic slice of the Old West.
He's old, he's pissed, and he's gonna kill everyone. Dude, it's Clint. Enough said.
Along with Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller, as authentic a depiction of a Wild West town as you are likely to find.
Vivid morality tale for adults about the difficulty we all have overcoming deeply ingrained
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