Arguably the greatest western since Sam Peckinpah hung up his stirrups.
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02/19/08
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.
Runtime: 2 hrs 13 mins
Genre: Westerns
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 CriticIronically, 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 CriticIn this dark, timeless terrain, the film achieves a magnificent intensity.
06/24/06
Top CriticNo review available.
03/22/04
Unforgiven began Clint Eastwood's current apology tour for his cinematic violence.
05/01/09
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11/03/08
Eastwood's meditation on age, repute, courage, heroism -- on all those burdens he has been carrying with such good grace for decades.
10/26/08
Top CriticOne of Unforgiven's assets is the way it overturns conventions, taking the man who is typically the hero and making him the villain, while transforming the traditional bad guy into a sympathetic protagonist.
06/10/08
A classic Western for the ages.
02/19/08
Top CriticA rigorous deconstruction of both fictitious violence and Eastwood's own career as a trigger-happy 'hero.'
07/25/07
There's not much dramatic urgency apart from the revisionist context.
02/05/07
Dark 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's best film--a compelling...study of the shame and guilt that attends violence, of the rule of the mighty over the weak, of courage and cowardice alike
10/14/06
A complex and haunting Old-West morality tale...Thanks Clint, for once again making my day.
03/03/06
Conveys the power of the Western genre’s myths ... as well as the ugly, unromantic realities that lurk behind them.
05/04/05
No review available.
12/05/04
Revisionist Eastwood western is terrific on all counts.
11/01/04
No review available.
10/06/04
No review available.
08/18/04
A near-great Western, weakened only by overt revisionism.
07/21/04
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