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Product Description:
Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Saul RubinekDirector: Clint Eastwood
Amazon.co.uk Review:
Winner of four Academy Awards, including best picture, director, supporting actor and best editing, Clint Eastwood's 1992 masterpiece stands as one of the greatest and most thematically compelling Westerns ever made. "The movie summarised everything I feel about the Western," said Eastwood at the time of the film's release. "The moral is the concern with gunplay." To illustrate that theme, Eastwood stars as a retired, once-ruthless killer-turned-gentle-widower and hog farmer. He accepts one last bounty-hunter mission--to find the men who brutalised a prostitute--to help support his two motherless children. Joined by his former partner (Morgan Freeman) and a cocky greenhorn (Jaimz Woolvett), he takes on a corrupt sheriff (Oscar winner Gene Hackman) in a showdown that makes the viewer feel the full impact of violence and its corruption of the soul. Dedicated to Eastwood's mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel and featuring a colourful role for Richard Harris, Unforgiven is arguably Eastwood's crowning directorial achievement. --Jeff Shannon
Amazon.co.uk Review:
Set in Wyoming in 1881 during the sunset years of the Wild West, 1992's Unforgiven was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood, and is generally considered to be the towering achievement of his twilight years. Eastwood plays William Munny, once a vicious, whisky-swilling bounty hunter, brought to heel by his marriage to a good woman. When she dies, he must raise two children and run a hog farm alone, something which we see him make a comically poor fist of doing. Then, in a twist of fate, a young outlaw called the Schofield Kid trots up to his farm and invites him to collect on a $1,000 reward raised by a group of prostitutes. However, Clint must not only face up to his own somewhat rusty skills as a gunslinger, but also to genial-but-psychopathic lawman Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman in superb form). Unforgiven ultimately conforms to the expectations of the genre, while subverting quite a few of them on the way. There's brooding on the consequences of violence ("It's a hell of a thing to kill a man"), as Munny's ineptitude with a rifle is matched by his feelings of penitence for his younger wrongdoings. Finally, however, Eastwood casts aside age and inhibition in a chillingly ruthless shootout, his powers miraculously (improbably?) restored, in what could also be seen as an assertion on the part of the ageing Eastwood of his own potency as a major player in Hollywood. --David Stubbs
Very good film, but the picture quality is poor 
Not much more to say really. There are plenty of reviews here detailing the storyline etc. I actually bought it from ASDA. I should have checked out the reviews on here first, and spent a bit extra on the better looking 10th Anniversary Edition. It all looks rather grainy, and should never have been released on DVD in this state, in my opinion.
strays into whimsy
OK... but as usual C E becomes a bit whimsical with his characters and the film loses its potential punch. An excellent cast line up but they look hamstrung by the Director's view of how they should act.. shame as could have been a top notch film but worth the watch.
Eastwood western 
I really rate this film also directed by Eastwood this is a true classic with some well know actors in it, with a good story line to it and great action well worth a top spot in your dvd collection if you like westerns especially the Eastwood one's.
I hope my reviews help people in deciding on buying anything ive reviewed, all the things iv purchased on here have turned up in good cond and in the stated time.
Very overrated 
Well I finally got around to watching Unforgiven.
It was alright, but to be honest I wouldn't go much further than that. I've watched quite a lot of westerns in the last couple of months, but I certainly wouldn't say it was one of the better ones. It seemed very basic, and really had no story other than some guys are paid to kill some other guys, and they kill them. It seemed to be completely lacking in anything more than the most basic storyline, characters seemed very shallow and one dimensional, in fact I found the whole film rather boring and uneventful, leading to a very anti climatic ending.
Yeah, maybe a 5/10 at a push, and that's only for some nice cinematography. Definitely not on a par with any of his earlier work, or even more recent westerns such as 3:10 To Yuma.
Wrong cover 
That box would look so much better without the flying heads...
Despite that it is an amazing movie.
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