Unforgiven (1992)
Average Rating: 8.6/10
Reviews Counted: 64
Fresh: 62 | Rotten: 2
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.
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Critic Reviews: 14
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 2
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.
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Dedicated to his mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood's 1992 Oscar-winner examines the mythic violence of the Western, taking on the ghosts of his own star past. Disgusted by Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett's decree that several ponies make up for a cowhand's slashing a whore's face, Big Whiskey prostitutes, led by fierce Strawberry Alice (Frances Fisher), take justice into their own hands and put a $1000 bounty on the lives of the perpetrators. Notorious outlaw-turned-hog farmer
Aug 3, 1992 Wide
Mar 26, 1997
Warner Bros. Pictures
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Cast
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Clint Eastwood
Bill Munny -
Gene Hackman
Sheriff "Little Bill" D... -
Morgan Freeman
Ned Logan -
Richard Harris
English Bob -
Jaimz Woolvett
The "Schofield Kid" -
Saul Rubinek
W.W. Beauchamp -
Frances Fisher
Strawberry Alice -
David Mucci
Quick Mike -
Rob Campbell
Davey Bunting -
Anthony James
Skinny Dubois -
Beverley Elliott
Silky -
Tara Dawn Frederick
Little Sue -
Greg Goossen
Fighter -
Larry Joshua
Bucky -
Robert Koons
Crocker -
Henry Kope
German Joe Schultz -
Aline Levasseur
Penny Munny -
Anna Levine
Delilah Fitzgerald -
Jefferson Mappin
Fatty Rossiter -
Walter Marsh
Barber -
Shane Meier
Will Munny -
John Pyper-Ferguson
Charley Hecker -
Jeremy Ratchford
Deputy Andy Russell -
Liisa Repo-Martell
Faith -
Josie Smith
Crow Creek Kate -
Ron White
Clyde Ledbetter -
Michael Maurer
Train Person #3 -
George Orrison
The Shadow -
Frank C. Turner
Fuzzy -
Ben Cardinal
Johnny Foley -
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Chad Dowdell
Curious Townsperson (un... -
Philip Maurice Hayes
Lippy MacGregor -
Mina E. Mina
Muddy Chandler -
Lochlyn Munro
Texas Slim
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All Critics (64) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (71) | Rotten (2) | DVD (34)
This is the finest set of performances ever to grace a Clint Eastwood movie, and this time Eastwood even does a good job directing Eastwood. Every bullet in this movie matters.
Top CriticThis dark, melancholic film is a reminder-never more necessary than now-of what the American cinema is capable of, in the way of expressing a mature, morally complex and challenging view of the world.
Eastwood's meditation on age, repute, courage, heroism -- on all those burdens he has been carrying with such good grace for decades.
One 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.
A classic Western for the ages.
There's not much dramatic urgency apart from the revisionist context.
Unforgiven exposes the true price behind the way the West was won.
Clint Eastwood's westerns are distinctive, and that Unforgiven, as the most fully realized, is the most distinctive of all.
It's a somber feature, but one of extraordinary character development, bundled into a compelling story of men facing their sins in a most brutal, pitiless manner.
One of the absolute masterpieces of American cinema in the 1990s.
The great Orson Welles once stated that Clint Eastwood was the most underrated filmmaker in America, and the sobering footnote is that he passed away in 1985, well before Eastwood began to be taken seriously as an artist by most critics and moviegoers.
The film at its heart is the first in a line of revisionist superhero movies.
Eastwood's best film -- a compelling study of the shame and guilt that attends violence, of the rule of the mighty over the weak and of courage and cowardice.
Violent Oscar winner shatters myths of the Old West.
Unforgiven began Clint Eastwood's current apology tour for his cinematic violence.
Arguably the greatest western since Sam Peckinpah hung up his stirrups.
Ironically, the ultimate Western of all was made decades after its hayday. This is captivating for all, not just fans of the genre.
A rigorous deconstruction of both fictitious violence and Eastwood's own career as a trigger-happy 'hero.'
Audience Reviews for Unforgiven
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- Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett: I'll see you in hell Bill Munny.
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- Will Munny: I've killed women and children. I've killed everything that walks or crawls at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you done to Ned.
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- Will Munny: What I said the other day, you looking like me, that ain't true. You ain't ugly like me, it's just that we both have got scars.
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- Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett: This guy here is the Duck of Death...
- W.W. Beauchamp: Duke
- Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett: Duck I say
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- Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett: I don't deserve this... to die like this. I was building a house.
- Bill Munny: Deserve's got nothin' to do with it.
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- Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett: Well sir, you are a cowardly son of a bitch. You just shot an unarmed man.
- Bill Munny: He should have armed himself....... if he's going to decorate his saloon with my friend.
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