Unforgiven

Pros: Atmosphere, photography, Sets
Cons: No action, No adventure, All violence, One dimensional characters

Pros: Harsh look at the highly-romanticized act of killing in the old West
Cons: May scare your kids

This is one of the most amazing films ever made, and is certainly one of the finest westerns. Rank it right up there with High Noon, Clint Eastwoods "Dollar" trilogy directed by Sergio Leone, John Wayne's best stuff or etc., etc.

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Pros: Direction, Eastwood, Hackman, Freeman, Harris, Script, Supporting Cast
Cons: None

"It's a hell of a thing to kill a man. You take away everything he's got, and everything he's ever going to have." William Munny Hollywood has produced many Westerns; a few have crossed the line from entertainment to greatness. ...

Pros: Literate script. Haunting atmosphere. Masterful performances.
Cons: Someone forgot to turn up the lights for the DVD transfer.

I was not needed on the set today; the director is filming some clearly inferior scenes with less important performers. I had the chance to see the rushes from the last few days in the editing room this morning. My big tap finale, Happy...

Pros: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman. The scenery, very well done!
Cons: A blind gun fighting kid.

(I do not give away the plot with this review)

Directed by Clint Eastwood (1992)
Starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman.

Clint Eastwood as William Munny
Gene Hackman as Little Bill
Morgan...

Pros: Strong characters and excellent performances
Cons: Cruel violence and uncomfortable situations

This movie epitomizes the whole genre of westerns. This film is THE perfect western in my opinion. It is the story of William Munny (Clint Eastwood), a retired and reformed killer with two motherless children to raise on a hog farm in the wild and...

Pros: Direction, screenplay, and the entire cast.
Cons: None.

UNFORGIVEN, as many of you probably already know, is more than just another western. It’s an interesting movie because there is a nice parallel between its main character, William Munny, and the actor playing him, Clint Eastwood. Munny is an old, ...

Pros: It's a GOOD western in this day and age
Cons: Sometimes drags

Okay, will someone please explain why Richard Harris received a marquee headline in Clint Eastwood’s movie Unforgiven? Harris has a role in the movie as a hired gun called English Bob because, well, he’s from England. Harris milks the role in ...

Pros: A good story, good acting, good visuals, and a good musical score.
Cons: It's anti-violence message isn't exactly clear at times.

This movie starts with William Munny (Clint Eastwood) a widower alone with his two children. He is, or rather was, a former gunfighter. He has a loot of blood and regrets on his hands. Then the scollfield kid pays Munny a visit. The Kid ...

Pros: A Haunting Script, Fantastic Performances All Around
Cons: A Little On The Long Side

There is just something about westerns that has never really appealed to me. I don’t know if it’s the all-too-predictable storylines that they typically follow, or if I just don’t see very much depth in your typical “man with the white hat” good cowboy...

Pros: Simple, moving story; incredible performances; memorable characters; superb direction; it's simply a great film
Cons: Perhaps a tad slow at times? Oh, forget I mentioned it. Just watch it.

First, let it be said that I am no aficionado of Western Films. I have never seen any of the old Eastwood spaghetti Westerns, nor any of his American genre films. I was never particularly interested in them.

One of the most interesting things...

Pros: Very good direction, musical score, Gene Hackman's magnificent
Cons: A little overrated and slow starting

Eastwood's brooding, violent western owes more to his early work with Sergio Leone than to the classic westerns made by the likes of John Ford. It's as if the Man With No Name got old and started a pig ranch with his two children. A film full of...

Pros: script, cinematography, characters, sets
Cons: violence, gloomy

Unforgiven was only the third western film to land the coveted Oscar for Best Picture. It is also the only one among those three films to deserve the trophy. Clint Eastwood served as producer, director, and star, and had essentially complete...

Pros: Eastwood's phenomenal directing and his fantastic minimalist acting and his ensemble cast.
Cons: Not many people get the point.

The new film “American Outlaws” is about to be released in these great United States and who couldn’t be happier? The commercials for this fine piece of cinematic art clobber us with sexy, scantily clad women, Gary Glitter music and lots of explosive...

Pros: He raised two kids on his own
Cons: a man of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition

William Munny was a three-fingered widower, father of two children and pig-farmer. According to local lore and legend, he was held in contempt and infamy for his wild Western days as a man of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition: a...