Review of Unforgiven

Produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven is simply the most realistic western ever put to film. Never before has a movie so faithfully captured what the old west was really like, while at the same time delivering a message about how nothing good ever comes from violence. It's no surprise that the film easily walked away with the Best Picture Academy Award for 1992.

When a customer cuts up a prostitute and goes unpunished, the women put out a bounty on his head and his partner's. Eastwood plays Will Munny; a former criminal now reformed. Along with his former partner Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman), Munny reluctantly sets out to retrieve the bounty in one final job.

While Munny and Logan are someone reluctant to engage in a bloody murdering spree once again, they meet up with a young gunslinger called The 'Schofield Kid' who's hungry for violence. In town, they also have to deal with Gene Hackman as Little Bill, a very brutal sheriff.

It's a movie that just so happens to take place in the old west while showing the evil that exists in mankind while hammering home the message that nothing good ever comes out of violence.

At the same time, you'll never find another western that's this realistic. Instead of the town featuring busy streets that are packed with people, it's predicted as an eerily quiet small community. Eastwood doesn't turn it into a "Hollywood" western, but instead tries to show how isolated and quiet the old west really was. And he succeeds in that attempt with flying colors.

Unforgiven is completely deserving as its status as one of the greatest westerns ever filmed. It's a true modern classic and a movie that should be in any Eastwood or western fan's collection.