Reviews of Unforgiven 1992
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My favorite Clint Eastwood movie and performance. Third favorite Western. Very first blu-ray I ever watched. The screenplay is a marvel unto itself. In short: a perfect film, a modern American masterpiece.
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There are cinematic lists of shame, if you haven't seen Unforgiven then it should be at the top of yours. This is one of the greatest films ever made and it is obvious from the opening minutes. Nearly perfect in every way. I doubt there's a better western or ever will be. I shall not discuss the ins and the outs, the whys and the wherefores, there is no point, this is a film over 20 years old now and…
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Part of Clintfest '13
*SOME SPOILERS*
"Well, I guess they had it comin'."
"We all have it comin'."Unforgiven is Clint Eastwood's masterpiece: a towering dismantling of Western mythos, extraordinary in every way. It's the best and most important oater since John Ford's supposed "last word" on the genre - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - and arguably the most morally and thematically interesting since The Searchers, the Ford film that cast John Wayne as a violent racist hell-bent…
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Bleak. Fierce. Excellent. A masterpiece.
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Perhaps the best elegiac western ever made, Clint Eastwood's masterpiece is a bleak and uncompromising morality play. Breathtaking.
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Αφηγηματικό δοκίμιο του Clint Eastwood στο στιλ του western για τη βία, τον θάνατο, την απώλεια και το πεπρωμένο.
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Not only is this film my favorite Western, it is my favorite work of Clint Eastwood.
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Clint Eastwood's powerful final statement on his entire career of Western antiheroes, a potent dissection on the corrosive, long-term effects of violence on the human soul. Gene Hackman is blisteringly brilliant in this.
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/The/ post-modern Western. Closes the door on the genre. The Coens brought the classic form back with their rendition of TRUE GRIT, but as a vehicle for morality tale, this film shows the horrors of the age with an honesty very intentionally missing from most Hollywood depictions of the setting. Frontier "justice," painful long deaths, and the easy steps from a civilized world to the anarchy of law by the lawless.