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- 1992
- R
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- 2 h 11 m
- 1992
- R
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- 2 h 11 m
SummaryIn this Academy Award winning western, Eastwood and Freeman are down-on-their-luck outlaws who pick up their guns one last time in order to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of remote Big Whiskey, Wyoming.
Directed By: Clint Eastwood
Written By: David Webb Peoples
- 1992
- R
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- 2 h 11 m
- 1992
- R
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- 2 h 11 m
Unforgiven
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SummaryIn this Academy Award winning western, Eastwood and Freeman are down-on-their-luck outlaws who pick up their guns one last time in order to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of remote Big Whiskey, Wyoming.
Directed By: Clint Eastwood
Written By: David Webb Peoples
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Universal AcclaimBased on 34 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal AcclaimBased on 34 Critic Reviews
85
88% Positive
30 Reviews
30 Reviews
9% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
- All Reviews
- Positive Reviews
- Mixed Reviews
- Negative Reviews
Like a shooter whose skill allows him to take careful aim with a rifle rather than going for the easy splatter of a buckshot, director Eastwood's big picture is suredly calibrated: He points your eye to the tiniest specs, the most telling and powerful parts of this moral panorama.
Unforgiven is a high-caliber movie, a gripping and haunting work of art that should finally establish Eastwood as one of America’s best directors.
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Universal AcclaimBased on 318 User Ratings
8.3
88% Positive
281 Ratings
281 Ratings
9% Mixed
28 Ratings
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3% Negative
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User Score
Universal AcclaimBased on 318 User Ratings
8.3
88% Positive
281 Ratings
281 Ratings
9% Mixed
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
3% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
- All Reviews
- Positive Reviews
- Mixed Reviews
- Negative Reviews
98/100 What is justice? The right punishment? abiding law? You can build a law abiding community but with a flawed moral compas you will end up building a crooked house. The rain will infiltrate the crooked house (Natural force) just as death (Bill Muny) will spread itself on the town. The film gets you to spend the whole movie thinking about right and wrong, and by the end the answer is "deserve has nothing to do with it".Amazing turn on the western genre. All time classic here.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Unforgiven questions the rules of a macho genre, summing up and maybe atoning for the flinty violence that made Eastwood famous. [10 Aug 1992]
As great as the script and cinematography are (they are both unassailable), the real magic of Unforgiven is in the performances.
Unforgiven... never quite fulfills the expectations it so carefully sets up. It doesn't exactly deny them, but the bloody confrontations that end the film appear to be purposely muted, more effective theoretically than dramatically.
Plays out its drama with enough old-fashioned sobriety to lend the proceedings a classical air, offering the comfort of familiarity rather than the thrill of discovery. [13 Aug 1992]
At the last, we're left with a film that tries to doll up a conventional genre with hints of depth, hoping to disguise the cross-dressing by putting it in the shape of an epic. Murnau, Mizoguchi, Ford, even you authors of the Book of Genesis, rest easy. [12 Oct 1992]
Not only that but one of the best of the western genre. Unforgiven is simply brilliant. Clint Eastwood's direction is superb, and he is also exemplary in a suitably world-weary role. There is also some brilliant support playing, not only from Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris, but also especially from Gene Hackman.Unforgiven is also beautifully shot. The cinematography is wonderfully dark and autumnal, and the scenery and production values are breathtaking. The story is ceaselessly compelling and while Eastwood clearly dedicated the film to the likes of Sergio Leone, he replaces brutality with a greater emphasis on character and cause and effect, and doing that Eastwood successfully redefines the genre.There is also a wonderful script that does a fine job giving credibility to the characters. All in all, this film is brilliant. 10/10 Bethany Cox
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Western. When a crime goes unpunished by Gene Hackman, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris all come to town. There are slow parts and no surprises, but the script and acting make it watchable several times over.
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Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play two retired wild west bounty hunters, back in their saddles to chase one last payday after decades out in the pasture. Agonizingly slow, Unforgiven's two leads take their sweet time collecting their belongings, mounting their horses and trotting at a leisurely pace across state lines, sharing less than a few sentences along the way. We gather that Eastwood was a shady character in his day, reformed by the love of a deceased wife, but he seems more like a caged animal than a redeemed spirit and we're never given much reason to pull for him despite the presumed change of heart. Though his beloved bride's spirit lives on in the couple's two young children, he barely acknowledges their presence before leaving them on their own for a month to track down the new quarry.Freeman tries to drag some character development out of him out on the trail, but Eastwood holds on with an icy grip and piercing eyes, and there we sit for the rest of the picture. Gene Hackman is noteworthy for his portrayal of a smarmy, cocky town sheriff with a chip on his shoulder, but on every other count this is a western that misfires with each squeeze of the trigger.Despite a few beautiful panoramas, the world feels stiflingly tight and compressed. Outside of Hackman, there's no fire and passion in the cast, even when Eastwood turns the page and regresses to embrace his wilder young attitudes. Finally, the atmosphere, crucial to all films of the genre, feels clean and polished where it should be gritty and dirty. Much as I would've loved to see Clint don that familiar parka and revisit the days of his Sergio Leon sunrise, it just ain't happening here.
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Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris... voilà les vieux dirigés par Papy Clint lui-même sous le prétexte du western "crépusculaire" dans lequel erre une vieille baderne, ordure à ses heures et temps perdus... à ce qu'il paraît !Pendant tout le film, on nous ressasse les "exploits" et autres horreurs du boucher "William Munny" comme s'il s'agissait de Dark Vador en personne et pourtant difficile d'y croire lorsqu'on voit l'échalas plus très loin de l'hospice. Carrément à la masse pour ne pas dire complètement à l'ouest, Clint abuse de son personnage limite handicapé sénile, quitte à en faire une caricature plus moins involontaire.Puis, officiant comme une campagne de recrutement pour la NRA, Papy fait le ménage tout-à-coup comme s'il venait de récupérer son taux de glucose (un Mars et ça repart), le tout très premier degré dans sa vengeance froide et se donnant comme toujours le beau rôle, même s'il paraît qu'il est le pire des affreux salopards que la terre ait jamais porté... et il se permet de faire passer le shérif (un peu brusque certes) pour l'anté-christ lui-même.Non, vraiment, ça ne tient pas debout, ni dans sa narration ni dans son traitement. Le film se traîne d'ailleurs un peu trop et radote comme un vieux con. Et si second degré il y a , il se borne à quelques clins d'oeil lourdauds destinés à faire mousser encore davantage notre inspecteur Harry Munny.Cela n'empêche pas totalement le film de faire illusion un certain temps de par sa mise en scène soignée malgré (ou grâce à) la parade permanente de Papy Clint (arrête de parader comme ça, je vais finir par avoir peur !) et l'excellente prestation de Gene Hackman, décidément un sacré acteur qui tire très souvent les marrons du feu.Impitoyable se révèle donc une coquille bien vide cannibalisée par l'immense ego de l'acteur qui a vidé de leur substance toutes les tentatives de raconter une histoire.
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Production Company Warner Bros., Malpaso Productions
Release DateAug 7, 1992
Duration2 h 11 m
RatingR
TaglineIt's a hell of a thing, killing a man