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Name: Unforgiven
Director: Clint Eastwood
Genre: western
Released: 1992
Duration: 2 h 10 min
Rating: 8.2

Unforgiven has an iRankMovies score of 85.9/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Unforgiven (1992)

Some legends will never be forgotten. Some wrongs can never be forgiven.

Release:1992

Runtime:2h 10m

Country:United States

Director:Clint Eastwood

Language:English

Genre

Western

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Keywords

ProstituteSheriffRight And JusticeRegretWyoming UsaKansas UsarevengeMutilation

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Unforgiven rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.2/10· 465K votes

Rotten Tomatoes96%

Metacritic85%

TMDb7.909/10· 5K votes

With 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.2/10 on IMDb and 85/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Unforgiven

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.

Cast of Unforgiven

Clint Eastwood
as William Munny
Gene Hackman
as 'Little' Bill Daggett
Morgan Freeman
as Ned Logan
Jaimz Woolvett
as The Schofield Kid
Richard Harris
as English Bob
Saul Rubinek
as W.W. Beauchamp
Frances Fisher
as Strawberry Alice
Anna Thomson
as Delilah Fitzgerald
David Mucci
as Quick Mike
Rob Campbell
as Davey Bunting
Anthony James
as Skinny Dubois
Tara Frederick
as Little Sue

Unforgiven facts

Budget: $14.4M
Box office: $159.2M

Our take on Unforgiven

Clint Eastwood's 1992 western brings a retired killer out of quiet widowhood for one last bounty, in a grim, revisionist reckoning with violence and the myths the genre built. Mournful and morally complex, it's the western interrogating its own soul. If its bleak grandeur and moral weight gripped you, seek out revisionist westerns and elegiac crime dramas about the cost of the gun.

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Clint Eastwood deconstructs Western mythology with moral ambiguity and realistic violence
•One-last-job premise explores consequences of violence across aging gunfighter's final chapter
•Mutilation and brutality feel consequential rather than glorified or romanticized entertainment

What the audience disliked

•Measured pacing and character study approach lack excitement of traditional genre action
•Bleak worldview may feel nihilistic rather than offering thoughtful philosophical perspective