Unforgiven (1992)

Release date: 1992-08-07
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Clint Eastwood
Production Co: Warner Bros., Malpaso Productions
Genre: Western, Drama
Rating: 8.2/10
Length: 2h 10min

Storyline

The town of Big Whiskey, Wyoming is full of normal people trying to lead quiet lives. Cowboys try to make a living. Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett (Gene Hackman) tries to build a house and keep a heavy-handed order. The town prostitutes just try to get by.Then a couple of cowboys cut up one of them. Dissatisfied with Bill's justice, the prostitutes put a bounty on the cowboys. The bounty attracts a young gun billing himself as "The Schofield Kid" (Jaimz Woolvett), and aging killer William Munny (Clint Eastwood). Munny reformed for his young wife, and has been raising crops and two children in peace. But his wife is dead. Farm life is hard. And Munny is no good at it. So he calls his old partner Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman), saddles his ornery nag, and rides off to kill one more time, blurring the lines between heroism and villainy, man and myth.

Plot Keywords

one last job, widower, police brutality, regret, sex, train, writer, sole black character dies cliche, whiskey, torture, englishman, sadist, revenge, revisionist western, reputation, snow, broken leg, cliff, shooting, man wears eyeglasses

Short Review

Clint Eastwood's brilliant and harrowing Unforgiven packs all the punch of a good Western without indulging in the plot cliches and moral certitudes so often inherent in the genre.