Unforgiven [Blu-ray]
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Movie Reviews of Unforgiven [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: WTF Amazon?
Summary: 5 Stars
Am I the only one who has trouble posting reviews here?
Excellent Review: Excellent movie, excellent price.
Summary: 5 Stars Upgraded from dvd to blu. Beautiful picture and sound. Love this movie and now its even better.
Movie Review: Excellent
Summary: 4 Stars
UNFORGIVEN
**** Out of 5
Release Date- August 7th, 1992
Running Time- 131-Minutes
Rating- R
Screenplay- David Webb Peoples
Director- Clint Eastwood
Starring- Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Frances Fisher, Jaimz Woolvett, Saul Rubinek, Anna Levine and Gene Hackman as Little Bill Daggett
Unforgiven was Clint Eastwood's big return to the Western genre and is by considered by many as one of the all time greats of the genre and won four Academy Awards, which included best editing for Joel Cox, Gene Hackman for best supporting actor, best director for Eastwood and best picture and while Unforgiven is deserving of it's praise the movie isn't without it's flaws and quite honestly as much as I liked the movie it wouldn't make my top 5 Eastwood movies.
The screenplay by David Webb Peoples is quite solid with some really great characters. Unforgiven does feature plenty of action, but the movie is driven more by the characters rather than the action. The characters are all mostly well written for, but some aren't as interesting as others. None of the characters are boring or anything, but some work better than others. The script is well thought out and works on pretty much every level
Clint Eastwood won his first Oscar for Unforgiven and he delivers a very well made movie. As I stated even with the action, Unforgiven is much more driven by the characters and Eastwood does a great job at brining the script to life. His scenes are generally well paced and he delivers some great action, suspense and real life human emotions. The only problem I really had was the running time. I personally felt the 134-minute running time was a little overly long. While none of the scenes are filler scenes and they all add to the plot and to the characters I did feel a few minutes here and there could have been edited out and it wouldn't hurt the movie at all.
But regardless Eastwood delivers an excellent movie and the final act was nothing short of brilliant. The suspense level is excellent and while the shoot outs don't drag out, but they aren't too brief either and while the whole movie was well done I think the final act is where Eastwood really shines as director.
Besides directing and producing Clint Eastwood stars as William Munny and this might be the best character Eastwood has ever played or at least the most complex. The thing about Eastwood is he is a great actor in the sense that he's best known for that tough guy role and even in his lighter movies he still has that tough guy persona and you'll be hard pressed to find someone better at that role than Eastwood, but he doesn't have a lot of range as an actor. That isn't a knock against him since he's great at what he does, but in Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood shows more range than anything before or after this movie.
William Munny was a cold blooded killer who once married changed his ways and is seeking a sort of redemption. He knows what he's done in the past and he knows it was wrong, but what's done is done and in many ways William Munny is a broken man since the death of his wife. William Munny may not be as cool and entertaining as say Dirty Harry, but like I said he is the most complex of all Eastwood's characters. There was a lot of depth to William Munny and Eastwood really delivers a performance of a lifetime. We've seen characters like this before, but Eastwood as director and actor manages to make it seem fresh and different. Clint was nominated for best actor, but lost out to Al Pacino for Scent of a Woman, but I personally feel of all the nominated actors that year Eastwood was by far the best with a very complex character.
The supporting cast is excellent with Morgan Freeman as Ned Logan, who like Munny has done bad things in the past and is trying to put it behind him. Gene Hackman like always is great and was very deserving of his Oscar win, but I don't understand how Freeman wasn't nominated. Jaimz Woolvett as The Schofield Kid nearly steals the show as a wannabe gunslinger.
Like I said Unforgiven is a great picture and it's one of those movies as I think back to I like it even more, but still wouldn't place it in my top 5 Eastwood flicks. Unforgiven though is a really complex movie with excellent characters and like I said Eastwood is great at what he does, but doesn't have a lot of range, but here he shows all that range and more. William Munny is truly a great character and despite any problems I had with Unforgiven it comes highly recommended to Eastwood and Western fans.
The Blu-ray has excellent quality and makes the movie look like it was done recently and not in 1992. The extra features are great with some good behind the scenes, plus the documentary Eastwood on Eastwood, which is a must see for fans of the Iconic actor.
Movie Review: Hollywood at its best
Summary: 4 Stars
Clint Eastwood managed to find a masterpiece of a script this time, and the brilliance of his directorship shone through. In this movie, the supposedly righteous sheriff turns out to be a brutal arbitrator, the violent, face-cutting cowboy an ordinary young man who committed a mindless crime, the celebrated "English Bob" a hollow underachiever and liar, and the seemingly fearless "Schofield Kid" a boastful but naive young man, the prostitutes a hive of hateful, vindictive beings. Eastwood plays William Munny, a supposedly reformed ex-killer and weak old man who, at the sheriff's slaying of the innocent friend accompanying him on his bounty, re-engaged in violence and vengeance and overcame even the sheriff and his deputies. In short, the one supposed to be the good guy turns out to be vicious and unconscionable, the otherwise insignificant (prostitutes) reveals themselves to be murderous, and then justice comes in the most unlikely source and form.
With a cast consisted of Gene Hackman, Richard Harris and Morgan Freeman, Eastwood got himself a movie teeming with such solid acting as to be hard to surpass in the film industry, alongside with his latter production of The Space Cowboys. This movie is also filled with supple nuances that withstand repeated viewing in appreciation of the finely crafted action sequences and cinematography. I enjoyed the little humors that Eastwood shared with the audience, such as him resorting to a shotgun for target practice after failing with a handgun, the exaggerated description of abhorring acts done to the prostitute that he describes to Freeman's character, the little standoff between Harris' "English Bob" character and Hackman's "Little Bill" character at the Barbershop, etc.
The Western that Eastwood depicts is an expansive and clean-aired one, and one could almost smell the fabric off his old jacket and the sogginess of that jail house in the rain, not to mention the wetness at W.W. Beauchamp's foot. With all the violence in this film, there is the irrepressible background premise of the human conscience, of what ought to be necessity and justice, and what truly are not.
The Blu-Ray transfer is beautiful and the sound is more detailed and dynamic. There is even a complete black-and-white episode of the 1959 Maverick TV show starring Eastwood included. I bought it for $9.99 from Amazon; for a movie starring solid acting and wonderful story-telling, and in wonderful picture and sound, this disc is indispensable.
Movie Review: No more INSERT Second Disc!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a beutiful western with one of the original western stars, Clint Eastwood!
What i'd love about this DVD is that the movie won't be spread over two disc (like the previous DVD edition!)!!
Just for that, this is a Must HAVE!