Unforgiven on DVD (1992)

I'll have that thirty-two, Bob

JediSi , 02/09/2007

Unforgiven is a good movie. Clint Eastwood did a tremendous job in acting and directing this film which had a great supporting cast as well.

The story, just like real life, tells the story a man who has been out of the game for a few years and is making one last triumphant return to his old stompin' grounds. This film is unlike many other westerns in the fact that it doesn't glorify violence. Rather, it shows its dark side and the after effects that it has on people and their emotions. When Morgan Freeman cannot bear to shoot a man and when the Schofield Kid claims that he will never shoot another after he had killed his first.

A brilliant performance from Hackman, and the pace and movement of the film were perfect for a western. Worth a watch but probably wouldn’t buy it.

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Grand opera, Western-style: maybe not as great as it would like to be

Rehan from London , 16/09/2004

Certainly this film underlines the coarse brutality of an age which is sometimes misrepresented as being Golden in American history. But at times it tries a little too hard: a black sidekick (who of course dies) with a Native American wife ... purlease.

In the end it just doesn't avoid a great many trite and sentimental clich?s: if that's what you want out of a Western (and it is, after all, what most people do) then this will be a rewarding choice; rather less so for those who expect it to seriously stand out from the average.

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A reminder of how great a star Clint Eastwood is

A customer from Kidlington, Oxon , 15/09/2003

Cliche Eastwood pulls off a dazzling reminder of his talent, in which he both directs memorably and acts in his usual Mona-Lisa-ish way. The film takes you through a moral obstacle course, by asking you to side with a reformed criminal who returns to crime on a two-wrongs-will-correct-the-prob lem mission against Gene Hackman, the corrupt mayor. While Hackman is masterful, Clint Eastwood remains the master. In my view the best western I have ever seen. And four Oscars suggest I'm not alone in my views

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Best Western

klauski from west sussex , 06/08/2004

Already a classic, and winner of Best Picture and Best Director Oscars, this return to the saddle of Clint Eastwood produced one of the most thoughtful and reflective Westerns ever made.

Surprisingly low on action and gun fights, the film is nonetheless gripping as its drama unfolds. Clint manages to satires his own gun-man action image, and undermine the mythic heroic status of the gunfighter and cowboy in US folklore and legend. Here, the gunfighter is shown, on reflection, to be a drunk, sordid dealer in death, with no moral values or purpose.

Tremendous support from Gene Hackman as a complex flip-side to Clint's own character. And the movie self-consciously comments on the way in which history has turned these petty, nasty people into legendary heroes, by incorporating a novelist, who captures the unseemly fighting and bullying, and translates it into tales of the heroic West.

One of the best Westerns ever made, and a great companion to Clint's other masterpiece, "Outlaw Josey Wales"

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Unforgiven

A customer from England , 12/04/2005

The worst film ive ever seen. It was slow and boring, not even worth watchin the end.

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Liam#18 from CHELTENHAM , 21/03/2004

Excellant

Even that doesnt do this film justice. Clint slides back into his cowboy boots as though he never took them off, with morgan freeman brilliant as a sidekick and gene hackman great as the evil tyrannical sheriff. brilliant gun battles and the subplot of clint battling with his good vs evil side compelling viewing. If you fancy a more modern spaghetti western then look no farther..

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