That implacable moral balance, in which good eventually silences evil, is at the heart of the Western, and Eastwood is not shy about saying so.
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08/03/02
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
Top CriticA film that can stand proudly in the rarefied company of the very best westerns ever made.
06/05/02
Clint Eastwood teve bons professores.
05/31/02
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
In three decades of climbing into the saddle, Eastwood has never ridden so tall.
05/12/01
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
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
Jumps 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
Top CriticIn the 90's it stands alone as a great achievement in American filmmaking.
01/01/00
The film is a masterpiece, a stunning and awe-inspiring statement.
01/01/00
This film shows a surprising bitterness about the myths of the Old West. Yet where they are debunked, the film rings true.
01/01/00
Searing and somber, Unforgiven shatters every myth of the Wild West that Hollywood has ever thrown at us, and does it will an unmistakable ring of truth.
01/01/00
Great acting, realistic sets, and taut direction by Eastwood.
01/01/00
Unforgiven (1992) is producer/director/star Clint Eastwood's own tribute to his legendary legacy in Sergio Leone's low-budget 'spaghetti' westerns,
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