Highly Overrated But Still Good

A Major Disappointment

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner and a young man. Unforgiven is packed with a terrific cast of big names such as Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman but it's also directed by Eastwood. Now i have nothing against a film about the Old West that has some gun fights here and there but it's mostly slow i mean i liked movies bigger in run time than this but unfortunately i found the storyline not to be that much interesting despite Eastwood's great direction and the very good perfomances 'Unforgiven' is no 'Million Dollar Baby' or even 'Gran Torino' and to be honest one of Clint's most overrated. (C-)

Saw this in the late nineties on a vhs n revisted umpteenth number of times. Own a dvd of it. Jus revisited few days back on a blu ray. Back in those days, my grandpop was excited to see both his fav film stars, Eastwood n Hackman in the same film. The cast is awesomely strong. Eastwood, Hackman n Freeman. This aint just a great Western. Its a great movie with awesome characters. Eastwood playing a tough guy who has killed women and children in the past but trying to lead a decent honest life with his kids on a farm. He has become more weaker with age. His farm is going thru a loss n he is pulled into his darker side once again. On the other side v have Hackman as a sheriff whos against people carrying guns in his town. He is a bit autocratic n sadist when meting out punishment. We have Freeman as Eastwood's old pal who during a shootout acknowledges that he aint no ruthless anymore. All the performances r top notch. Eastwood's direction is truly mesmerizing from opening shot n the editing top notch. The one liners are also memorable. Cinematography by Jack N Green is wonderful. The film begins and ends with a beautiful wide shot, Eastwood standing at the grave near a tree, with a sunset in the background. As a fan of Eastwood n western genre, i owed it myself to write a review of this film.

Film Review: "Unforgiven" (1992)This in a slow mature manner received picture takes the classic western genre to heights of human struggle. The opening contains such a violence of a cowboy cutting up a prostitute's face that the feeling for vengeance lingers all the way through in the small town of Big Whiskey, Wyoming in the 1870s. Director Clint Eastwood gets engaged with an original screenplay by David Webb Peoples to transform the myth of commercialized 1950s U.S. American western with a character of mass murder William Munny, also performed by Eastwood, where every single beat down to mounting a horse turns into struggle of an elder man of experience, which becomes fascinating to witness even after several viewings. The suspense establishes through the main character's nemesis Little Bill Daggett, given face by actor Gene Hackman in a powerhouse performance of such viciousness in ruling this western small town as local sheriff that there is hardly an equal in motion picture history. Seduction, fist-to-foot beatings as leather strap whippings descending to cold-blood murder are no seldom seen kid of lost innocence. The town of Big Whiskey compares to a dictatorship. Boozing-up, whoring and mandatory disarmed visitor treatments fills the stark-contrasted visuals, especially in heavy rain night exteriors that when it comes the anxiously anticipated final confrontation between Little Bill and Will Munny, hired for murder by a bunch of prostitutes for a last job under the influence; me personally must sit on the edge of the seat to follow the release of an 105 minutes undercurrently summoned-up tension that gets elegantly concluded as it began with an abandoned pig farmer's house in the middle of a sunset horizon.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Unforgiven (1992)This is modern western produced and directed by Clint Eastwood. The story is about an aging outlaw and killer who takes on one more job years after he had turned to farming. It stars Eastwood in the lead role, with Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman. The film won four Academy Awards: Best Picture and Best Director, Best Supporting Actor for Gene Hackman, and Best Film Editing. This is a shining example of Eastwood's abilities as a filmmaker. It's more than a western, it's a movie about redemption. This is an excellent fit and paved the way for the modern western as an art form.