Unforgiven stars Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman. To this day, it is already a classic of western and all cinema.
Clint Eastwood’s best film.
According to a certain list, it is the second best western in the History of Cinema. There you have it.
Come on, hands down a 10.
Plot
In a small town, a client mistreats a prostitute and slashes her face. Her friends, also prostitutes, offer a payment for his head… and William Munny goes to collect the reward. He’s old and tired, and his companions don’t look much better.
The Movie. Review
Wonderful. Five stars, and you know we’ve given very few five stars here. Photography, acting, plot… everything was perfect for Eastwood to revive a genre that, at that time, seemed to be dead for good.
Eastwood knows the western from the inside (he has starred in several memorable ones) and knows its history, reminding us at all times of the masterpieces of Ford and Hawks. Sparkling dialogue, characters branded with the fire of the wild and a fluid narrative that takes us from classicism to the more twilight tone of One-Eyed Jacks.
Intense, exceptional and in case you watch it again, pay attention to the framing of the scenes, always with intentionality, with several characters involved in the frame. An ambitious and rounded work.
Our Opinion
It is difficult to finish without saying something about the exceptional performance of the not enough highly praised Gene Hackman, Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for this film.
Just to say: a classic film.
Five stars.