Film
Unforgiven
- Director
- Clint Eastwood
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 130 mins
Clint Eastwood‘s Best Director and Best Film Oscar winner also boasts one of his best ever performances, drawing together disparate threads from his screen career. He plays a retired gunman badgered by young gun Jaimz Woolvett to help win a reward offered for bumping off a pair of drunken cowhands who slashed a prostitute’s face. Eastwood links up with his old pardner Morgan Freeman once again, but sheriff Gene Hackman has already built up his own legend by seeing off fellow reward-seeker Richard Harris and our Clint finds himself dragged back into a world of violence, sudden death and appalling cruelty.
With a confident widescreen look and first-rate performances, this delivers the expected drama and action, but it’s much deeper than most star vehicles, with Eastwood genuinely crawling under the skin of his fast-gun image to show the consequences of a lifetime of murder on his character’s soul. Mainstream movies don’t come any better than this.
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