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 CriticNo review available.
03/22/04
In this dark, timeless terrain, the film achieves a magnificent intensity.
06/24/06
Top CriticAlong with Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller, as authentic a depiction of a Wild West town as you are likely to find.
01/04/03
A near-great Western, weakened only by overt revisionism.
07/21/04
No review available.
04/15/04
The film is a masterpiece, a stunning and awe-inspiring statement.
01/01/00
No review available.
02/19/03
A film that can stand proudly in the rarefied company of the very best westerns ever made.
06/05/02
No review available.
11/17/03
There's not much dramatic urgency apart from the revisionist context.
02/05/07
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.
08/03/02
Top CriticClint Eastwood teve bons professores.
05/31/02
No review available.
10/13/02
In the 90's it stands alone as a great achievement in American filmmaking.
01/01/00
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
...a delicate yet brutal balance of real West versus reel West.
09/10/02
A rigorous deconstruction of both fictitious violence and Eastwood's own career as a trigger-happy 'hero.'
07/25/07
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
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