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One of the Best Western Films Ever Made
"Unforgiven" took home 4 Acadmemy Awards back in 1992, is number 98 on The American Film Institute's Top 100, and is a milestone in western cinema. It's also directed by two-time Oscar Winner Clint Eastwood
(Best Director, "Unforgiven" & "Million Dollar Baby"), who also stars.
It also features two-time Oscar winner Gene Hackman (Best Actor, "The French Connection" and Best Supporting Actor, "Unforgiven") and
Oscar winner Morgan Freeman (Best Supporting Actor, "Million Dollar Baby"). I've never been a big fan of westerns and never really had a desire to see this movie, until I got into the HBO show "Deadwood" which made me want to look back at some western films. Well, "Unforgiven" is a masterpiece on many levels...Not just as a western. As scripted by David Webb Peoples, "Unforgiven" opens as two men viciously cut a prostitute's face with a knife in the town of Big Whiskey. When the sheriff, Little Bill Dagget (Hackman) shows up he hands down their punishment. Give the owner of the house a few horses. Outraged, the prostitutes begin to offer men $1000 dollars to kill the men who did it. Jump over to Kansas and we meet Bill Munney (Eastwood, in one of his best performances), a former outlaw, who has changed his ways since getting married. But, now, his wife is dead and he's left with his two young children. One day, a kid (about 20) shows up at his house identifying himself as The Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett). The Kid tells Bill about the prostitute's offer and asks Bill to be his partner; Bill quickly turns him down, but eventually changes his mind and rides out into the country to catch up with the Kid. Along the way, Bill stops at his old friend Ned's (Freeman) place and Ned joins him. The late Richard Harris co-stars as a killer-for-hire named English Bob, who's character pretty much could've been erased. Anyway, this movie is probably my third favorite film directed by Eastwood; It's right below Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby. This movie is entertaining, dramatic, and features Eastwood, Freeman, and Hackman giving some of the best performances of their careers. The chances of someone being disappointed with a film like this are very slim; this is just really one of the great movies of the last 20 years.

GRADE: A


overated western,directed by Clint, transfer very good
It seems to me it is a film so full of itself that it was concerned from the start it would be considered for greatness.."Unforgiven"reminds me of a very different film years ago called "The Verdict"in that way;it seems to have been made with Oscar in mind..It is dark and violent ,and sometimes unintentionaly camp(some of the lines are so obviously meant to be legendary , it reminds me of a Mad magazine take-off )But there are some entertaining performances in it (Hackman and Harris and the ever reliable Morgan Freeman.Buy it for that and the very good(though dark)transfer.A minority opinion I know but for me a real disappointment.3 bullets.

One of the greatest films ever made
This is the greatest western I've ever seen, and on my list of the greatest movies ever made. I am so impressed with it. I've been watching the movies that made Time Magazine's list of the 100 greatest movies of all time, and very few of them can compare to this one, which happens to be on their list. Their list should be honored to include Unforgiven, and not the other way around, because the Time Magazine list also includes a lot of inferior films to this one, like Citizen Kane, which can't hold a candle to Unforgiven.

Clint Eastwood is a retired gunslinger raising two small children alone because his beloved wife died. He accepts a job to kill two vicious men who mutilated a whore. The bounty, raised by the whore's co-workers, is $1,000. He has two other gunslingers to help with the job - Morgan Freeman and some young punk with bad vision.

Gene Hackman plays the brutal sheriff who refuses to punish the evildoers. He lets them go free, with a fine. This infuriates the other whores, resulting in their offering a bounty.

Character development and realism are two of the strongest traits of this great film. It has a satisfying ending as well, which is important to me. I'm not going to ruin it for you. You've found one of the greatest films ever made. Go get it.

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