Review – Unforgiven

After a lengthy and lucrative career making westerns about remorseless gunslingers who kill for little reason and never miss their targets, Clint Eastwood makes an abrupt departure with this production. His character, William Munny, is a single father with no desire to return to his former profession as a gunfighter. But then an aspiring youth (Jaimz Woolvett) talks him into one last easy score, and with his old pal Ned (Morgan Freeman) in tow he returns to the fray. He swiftly runs afoul of vicious boss Little Bill (Gene Hackman), and thing proceed from there. The plot outline doesn’t make it sound like much of a story, but the nuances more than make up for it. Killings have consequences. Killers feel remorse. Revenge never turns out to be a simple business. The addition of human morality to the Western transforms this from a standard genre piece to a genuinely worthwhile film. Worth seeing