Synopsis
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.
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Cast
- Clint EastwoodWilliam Munny
- Gene Hackman'Little' Bill Daggett
- Morgan FreemanNed Logan
- Jaimz WoolvettThe Schofield Kid
- Richard HarrisEnglish Bob
- Anna ThomsonDelilah Fitzgerald
- Frances FisherStrawberry Alice
- Saul RubinekW.W. Beauchamp
- David MucciQuick Mike
- Rob CampbellDavey Bunting
Recommendations
- 100
Los Angeles Times
Simultaneously heroic and nihilistic, reeking of myth but modern as they come, it is a Western for those who know and chrish the form, a film that resonates with the spirit of films past while staking out a territory quite its own. [7 Aug 1992] - 100
Variety
Clint Eastwood has crafted a tense, hard-edged, superbly dramatic yarn that is also an exceedingly intelligent meditation on the West, its myths and its heroes. - 100
TV Guide Magazine
The cast is universally strong. Hackman, Freeman and Harris don't do anything they haven't done before, but the roles suit their personae to a degree where they approach archetypal status. - 100
Chicago Tribune
This dark, melancholic film is a reminder -- never more necessary than now -- of what the American cinema is capable of, in the way of expressing a mature, morally complex and challenging view of the world. [7 Aug 1992] - 100
Rolling Stone
Unforgiven is the most provocative western of Eastwood's career, and with Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris along for the ride, it's also the most potently acted. - 88
USA Today
It's the actor/director's best movie - and the best Western by anybody in over 20 years. [7 Aug 1992] - 75
Christian Science Monitor
Plays out its drama with enough old-fashioned sobriety to lend the proceedings a classical air, offering the comfort of familiarity rather than the thrill of discovery. [13 Aug 1992] - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
Though the movie is riddled with memorable scenes of violence, its pace is slow -- too slow. It has an epic sprawl, but it's not an epic. It's more like a bloated fairy tale. [7 Aug 1992]
