Movie #99: Unforgiven

Movie #: 99
Movie Title: Unforgiven
Year Released: 1992

Director: Clint Eastwood
Notable Cast: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett

Short Description: Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner and a young man. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: #68
IMDB.com: #95
Ranker.com: #78
Lifed.com: N/A
Empire.com: N/A
FilmCrave.com: #61
FlickChart.com: N/A

Note: This is the first movie on my list to appear on four of the top 100 lists I used to compile the 251 movies I’m watching.



Date Watched: 6/14/2016

Grade: 3 out of 5 (Good)

Rationale: Unforgiven is like a slow burning firework that has an exciting pop at the end. The payoff makes up for a drawn out character building, especially when you find out why Clint Eastwood’s character Will Munny is trying so hard to forget and move on from his past. Both Eastwood and Gene Hackman, as Bill Daggett, played roles I haven’t seen them in before and it was refreshing seeing Eastwood as a tired, broken down old cowboy and Hackman as a lawman using his authority for his own advantage. Morgan Freeman’s character Ned Logan was necessary to the story as a partner for Eastwood’s Munny, but I sort of feel like Freeman was wasted in that role because it didn’t provide much in terms of character depth for him to work with.