Unforgiven (1992) Rank 3 Reviews

DVD Review e-zine

If you have wondered if the Wild West was really as glorious as the old movies have made you believe, then "Unforgiven" is one movie you must see. This award-winning movie created by the multi-talented Clint Eastwood - he acts as the producer, director, ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Review e-zine

Brian W. Fairbanks Review

In Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, the winner of four 1992 Academy Awards, including best picture and best director, people die just as they have in dozens upon dozens of westerns but with one difference: ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Brian W. Fairbanks Review

Images Movie Journal

Unforgiven is dark, depressing, and full of failed figures. Munny's failure as a pig farmer mirrors his failure at reformation through the love of a good Christian woman. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Images Movie Journal

Movieline Magazine

Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, a dark, unsparing vision of frontier brutality, has been treated to such a Lifetime Achievement Award in prose that anyone who hasn't yet seen the film might understandably be wary of even more adulation. And yet the ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Movieline Magazine

DVD Verdict (Nicholas Sylvain)

Perhaps no actor in recent memory is so well known for placing his own stamp on a genre as is Clint Eastwood with the Western. From his earliest beginnings in Sergio Leone's "spaghetti Westerns" to his own stunning directorial efforts (High Plains ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Verdict (Nicholas Sylvain)

The Onion A.V. Club (Keith Phipps)

Of the extra features included on the new DVD version of Clint Eastwood's landmark 1992 Western Unforgiven, the one least related to the film proves the most telling. Thrown in seemingly because Warner Bros. owns the rights to the show, a 1959 episode of ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at The Onion A.V. Club (Keith Phipps)

Frank R.A.J. Maloney

UNFORGIVEN is just short of being a perfect film. I say this as a person who has never liked Clint Eastwood either personally or professionally. I suppose this is a kind of come-back film for Eastwood, who has littered the past decade of a string of ever ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Frank R.A.J. Maloney

Stoneheel Michael

Many Western fans consider this genre to be a cinema par excellance, while other persons claim that only a few Westerns are good films. UNFORGIVEN is a perfect opportunity to confront this issue. It seems to me that this film is about the Western myth, ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Stoneheel Michael

Time Out

A magnificent movie that transcends its familiar tale of a reformed gunman forced by circumstance to resume his violent ways. When a cowhand cuts up a prostitute and a bounty is placed on his head, killer-turned-farmer Will Munny (Eastwood) joins his old ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Time Out

DVD Savant (Glenn Erickson)

After one of their own's face is slashed, prostitutes in a mining town pool their money to hire a killer to do in the two cowboys responsible. First to arrive is Western legend English Bob (Richard Harris), who is brutally 'discouraged' by the pragmatic ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Savant (Glenn Erickson)

LeisureSuit.net

Unforgiven By the early nineties, the days of Best Picture Academy Award winners like Driving Miss Daisy and Rain Man were over. Oscar fell in love with violence, and gave us best pictures like The Silence of the Lambs, Braveheart, and the 6-million ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at LeisureSuit.net

Big Picture Big Sound - HD-DVD review (Chris Boylan)

Who'd have thought the young Clint Eastwood, with his roles on "Maverick," "Rawhide" and other genre TV shows of the 1950s and 1960s would have evolved into the icon of the American Western? And for that matter, who would have predicted not one but two ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Big Picture Big Sound - HD-DVD review (Chris Boylan)

DVDBeaver

As the most American of genres, it is interesting to look back on the last 25 years and to see, that in that period only three great Westerns were made: ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVDBeaver

IndependentCritics.com (Richard Propes)

"Unforgiven" is a dark, emotional film that spends a lot of time in the gray area...there are no real good guys or bad guys...in the end we all end up damaged by the killing we do amongst ourselves. The cinematography is beautiful here, along with the ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at IndependentCritics.com (Richard Propes)

DVD Town (John J. Puccio)

"Unforgiven" is producer-director-star Eastwood's and writer David Webb People's attempt to demytholigize the Western, to present the Old West on film as something closer to what it might really have been. Thus, you will find no heroes here, nor any true ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Town (John J. Puccio)

Spirituality & Health (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)

Unforgiven stars Clint Eastwood as Willy Munny, a retired gunslinger in the Old West who is failing as a hog farmer. To support his two children, he decides to go after a $1000 bounty on two cowboys who slashed the face of a prostitute. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Spirituality & Health (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)

Edinburgh U Film Society (Stephen Townsend)

The film is chiefly the story of William Munny (Clint Eastwood), a struggling Kansas farmer still mourning the death of his wife. One day he is unexpectedly approached by the trigger-happy "Schofield Kid" (Jaime Woolvet) who asks him to join him a bounty ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Edinburgh U Film Society (Stephen Townsend)

Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)

Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" goes beyond the familiar story line of a reformed gunslinger who is forced to pick up his guns again, by Clint giving the myth a revisionist look through debunking the legendary western heroes. Written by David Webb Peoples, ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)

Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)

In three decades of climbing into the saddle, Eastwood has never ridden so tall. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)

TV Guide's Movie Guide (--)

One of Eastwood's finest outings to date, an elegiac western that ironically undermines the conventions of the genre, only to deliver a finale as legendary as the shootout at the O.K. Corral. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (--)

Film Geeks

What comes into your mind when you read those words? There are as many possible answers as there are people in the world. A pure pacifist might reject violence outright. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Film Geeks

The Greatest Films (Tim Dirks)

Eastwood plays a weakened, once-violent but reformed gunfighter - and an aging pig farmer - in this serious, dark, film-noirish, violent tale of retribution that concludes with a climactic and bloody showdown. The themes of justice, law enforcement, the ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at The Greatest Films (Tim Dirks)

Classic Film Guide

Though I personally prefer watching his spaghetti Westerns, it was great to see Eastwood finally get Oscar recognition. A replay of two years prior (ala Costner and his Western), Clint received the Director and Producer (Best Picture) Oscars while losing ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Classic Film Guide

Perihelion Journal (Jay Antani)

Eastwood's best film--a compelling...study of the shame and guilt that attends violence, of the rule of the mighty over the weak, of courage and cowardice alike ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Perihelion Journal (Jay Antani)

Box Office Magazine

Roll over Kevin Costner, and take your overlong, picture-postcard, politically correct, "new age" horse opera with you. The western has found it's true renewal not in your Oscar-winning vanity project but in the hands of a man who was born to do the job, ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Box Office Magazine

Box Office Magazine

Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Written by David Webb Peoples. Produced by Clint Eastwood. Released by Warner Bros. Home Video. 1992. 131 minutes. Rated R. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Box Office Magazine

The Flick Filosopher's take

"It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man," says thief and killer William Munny (Clint Eastwood, who also directed) in Unforgiven. "You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have." Practically an antimovie, this revisionist Western rejects the ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at The Flick Filosopher's take

FilmDailies.com

The story itself reflects the dying genre, both Sergio Leone and Don Siegel died a few years before the movie was made. William Munny (Clint Eastwood) is a vicious killer and thief who changed his evil ways 11 years ago. His wife gets credit for that but ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at FilmDailies.com

DVD Verdict (Ryan Keefer) - HD-DVD

Clint Eastwood had hit a bit of a career rut in the late '80s and early '90s. He appeared in or directed such cinematic gems as The Rookie, The Dead Pool and Pink Cadillac. He managed to keep a hold onto a script for a number of years, a sleepy Western ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Verdict (Ryan Keefer) - HD-DVD

DVD Journal

Before Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven in 1992, westerns had, over the previous 20 years, been rightfully discarded as antique entertainments, poorly recycling the used ideas from classics of a distant era. The 1940s and 1950s belonged to the idealism of ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Journal

DVDTown (John J. Puccio)

"Unforgiven" is producer-director-star Eastwood's and writer David Webb People's attempt to demytholigize the Western, to present the Old West on film as something closer to what it might really have been. Thus, you will find no heroes here, nor any true ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVDTown (John J. Puccio)

25frames.org (Christoph Huber)

Big Whiskey, ein kleines Kaff irgendwo im Westen. Ein Cowboy zerschneidet der Prostituierten Delilah (Anna Levine ) das Gesicht, weil sie Ã¼ber seinen kleinen Penis gelacht hat. Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett (Gene Hackman ) wird geholt: Er lÃ¤sst den ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at 25frames.org (Christoph Huber)

Expanded Cinemah

Bogart di fine secolo, Eastwood consacra la propria immagine e sacrifica il proprio volto alla "immanenza della morte" (Bazin). Non sorprenda l'uso di termini religiosi: quella di Munny, Ned e Kid, quella del film, quella del "mito" Ã¨ una vera e ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Expanded Cinemah

DVD Net (Gavin Turner)

Optioning the script for Unforgiven way back in 1976, Clint Eastwood sat on the project for 16 long years; long enough to finally consider himself old and grizzled enough for the film's lead role. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Net (Gavin Turner)

PreViewed DVD

Clint Eastwood is an accomplished actor and director, but he is perhaps best known as a cowboy and a cop. Eastwood began his career in the television and the movies as an actor in Westerns, and he solidified his stardom as ultra-tough guy cop Dirty Harry. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at PreViewed DVD

Entertainment Insiders

Clint Eastwood's Oscar winning film is a wonderful revisionist look at the old west. Gone is all of the mythical qualities of his man with no name. Writer David Webb Peoples' script is an insightful look at the soul of a man who's soul has been carved up ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Entertainment Insiders

DVD Review e-zine

"Unforgiven" is a remarkable film in many aspects and it is reflected in the fact that it received four Academy Awards, including one for Best Picture. Clint Eastwood produced, directed and starred in the film that takes a long, hard look at the Wild ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Review e-zine

DVD Review e-zine

"Unforgiven" is a remarkable film in many aspects and it is reflected in the fact that it received four Academy Awards, including one for Best Picture. Clint Eastwood produced, directed and starred in the film that takes a long, hard look at the Wild ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Review e-zine

DVD Town (John J. Puccio)

The main character, played by Eastwood, is William Munny, a widower with two small children, living off the land in a little mud hole in the middle of the Kansas plains. But it wasn't always so with Munny. Some ten years earlier, he was a "rootin', ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Town (John J. Puccio)

Washington Post (Hal Hinson)

"Unforgiven" is Eastwood's 36th movie, and, with its impressive (and sadly under-used) supporting cast of Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman, the actor-filmmaker's most ambitious shot yet at a "classic" western; that is, a western in the larger-than-life ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Washington Post (Hal Hinson)

kids-in-mind

Clint Eastwood is a reformed outlaw who straps his guns on for the last time because he's a pig-farmer with sick pigs, and a bounty, offered for the killing of a couple of cowboys who slashed a prostitute, sounds like easy money. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at kids-in-mind

Apollo Guide (Dan Jardine)

Two roles define Clint Eastwood's career, The Man With No Name and Dirty Harry, two men of action whose problem solving skills are located in their itchy trigger fingers. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Apollo Guide (Dan Jardine)

DVD Authority.com (Matt Brighton)

Roughly twenty years ago, Clint Eastwood bought the film rights to a little movie called Unforgiven. At the time, he didn't feel like he was right for it yet, so there it sat for ten years. Then, in 1992 the film went onto win several Academy Awards ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Authority.com (Matt Brighton)

DVD Authority.com (Greg Bankston)

Unforgiven, a multi-award winning film directed by Clint Eastwood, is a gripping story about the pointlessness of violence. However, what amazed me is what I discovered concerning Eastwood in the Filmmakers Bios. Beginning in 1971 with Play Misty for me, ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Authority.com (Greg Bankston)

Boxoffice Magazine

Roll over Kevin Costner, and take your overlong, picture-postcard, politically correct, "new age" horse opera with you. The western has found it's true renewal not in your Oscar-winning vanity project but in the hands of a man who was born to do the job, ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Boxoffice Magazine

Eric Walker

UNFORGIVEN is just short of being a perfect film. I say this as a person who has never liked Clint Eastwood either personally or professionally. I suppose this is a kind of come-back film for Eastwood, who has littered the past decade of a string of ever ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Eric Walker

Mark R. Leeper

I picture Clint Eastwood as having gone through a similar moral crisis. He was the Man with No Name who could kill men by reflex. He was Dirty Harry, who made his day by gunning down punks. Eastwood made his living by that image. Perhaps there are even ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Mark R. Leeper

George V. Reilly

Eastwood is Will Munny, a former gunslinger and drunkard, saved eleven years before by the love of a good woman. Freeman plays his old partner, Ned Logan, another killer-turned-farmer. Hackman is Little Bill Daggett, a brutally sadistic sheriff, none too ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at George V. Reilly

Fulvue Drive-in

It was a low point in Clint Eastwood's career. He was a known quantity as a director, but also still a big star going back and forth between the films he wanted to make and what he and Warner Bros. considered more commercial projects. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Fulvue Drive-in

Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" takes place at that moment when the old West was becoming new. Professional gunfighters have become such an endangered species that journalists follow them for stories. Men who slept under the stars are now building ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

Washington Post (Desson Thomson)

It comes late in the movie and, coming from Clint Eastwood's steel-trap mouth, it's sweet music. "Any man don't wanna get killed," he warns a saloon full of armed varmints, "better clear on out the back." In "Unforgiven," his trembling opponents don't ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Washington Post (Desson Thomson)

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