rating:
(out of
4 stars)United States; 1992
Directed by Clint Eastwood; produced by Clint Eastwood; written by David Webb Peoples
Starring Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett, Saul Rubinek, Frances Fisher
Below you will find a temporary review for this film. The real (better, more complete) review will be online very soon.
Clint Eastwood´s ´Unforgiven´ is about a man who once was a killer of women
and children, always drunk, but gave that all up because of a woman. The
woman died but he stayed a good man and is living as a hog farmer with his
two children. He is not very good at his new job and there is hardly any
money. When he gets a visit from the Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett) the kid
does not believe that the guy he sees is the infamous William Munny (Clint
Eastwood). He has come to Munny to make him an offer. A whore is cut up and
the reward to kill the men who did that is a thousand dollars.
Munny agrees, but only if his old partner Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) takes
part in it as well. The Schofield Kid, with his bad eyes, has to go along.
In the town where the whores live the sheriff is Little Bill (Gene Hackman)
and we see the way he handles the men who come to collect the reward. A
famous gunman named English Bob (Richard Harris) comes to town and probably
regrets he ever did that. Of course this will not be the fate of our heroes,
or will it?
In many ways this is a western with all the elements we expect. Yet it is
more a movie about human nature than about those elements and some things
happen a little different. Example. One of the guys who cut up the whore is
not that bad. He made a mistake, he didn't even had the knife in his own
hands, and tries to make up for it by giving his best pony to the whore. You
sympathize with him but his fate will not be better. In the end things also
happen a little different than wee expect.
The performances, including Eastwood's silence one, are great. Gene Hackman
earned an Oscar for his part and deserved it. The direction is good and the
cinematographer gives us some recognizable but beautiful western images. A
great modern western.