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Very good. The movie is beautiful and there are some great particularly good performances, particularly from Gene Hackman and Clint Eastwood. It's hard to explain how well the movie pits the two against each other. I almost ended up rooting for both of them up until the third act.

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The perfect western. Unforgiven successfully takes an introspective look at the genre without falling into sentimentality or Hollywood cliches. The characters are nuanced with unspoken backgrounds that are only apparent through their subtle interaction with each other. The morals are shades of gray and we are allowed to draw our own conclusions as to what the wild west actually meant.

The western to end all westerns. Eastwood rips apart the mythos and then whacks you upside the head with the end. Draining, but at the same time everything in the film is charged with a sort of electric crackle that might hurt you if you reach out for it. In my opinion Clint should have retired after making this.

(Clint Eastwood)William Munny suppresses his alcoholic and murdering tendencies until a law man goes to far. Then he kills a bunch of people but in a good way.

Perhaps no man other than Eastwood could make Unforgiven, which is a love letter to the Western as much as it is a deconstruction. It features conflicts as tense and scenery as beautiful as any other in the genre, but doesn't simplify its characters or romanticize their murders. This refusal to overlook these flaws, in his character or his genre, allows Eastwood to create something intensely beautiful and powerful.

Clint Eastwood provides a fitting epilogue to his western past and to the genre as a whole. Unforgiven presents an uncompromising view of the old west, the violence is not glamourous or dealt with lightly, the notion of killing someone is given it's appropriate weight. The performances are excellent all round with characters that have a lot of ambiguity in them that goes far beyond the good guys v bad guys dynamic. A movie so good it effectively killed the genre as nothing more needs to be said.

Perhaps Eastwood's best. No black hats or white hats in this Western. Which is part of the reason why it's so good.

One of the best Westerns ever made. Textbook film about the self mythologizing Old West.