Arguably the greatest western since Sam Peckinpah hung up his stirrups.
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02/19/08
Unforgiven (1992)
96 %
Reviews Counted: 53 Fresh: 51 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
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 he sees fit. When he denies justice to the prostitutes of the town brothel, one of whom has been... [More]
Genre: Westerns
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett
Reviews
Top Critic
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
In this dark, timeless terrain, the film achieves a magnificent intensity.
06/24/06
Top Critic
Top Critic
A 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
In Clint's vision of the Old West all parties are tainted by violence and the need for revenge.
03/08/04
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