The last western for Eastwood
3.5/4 stars

Unforgiven is the Western goodbye for Clint Eastwood, and it is a dark bleak film especially compared to the Sergio Leone trilogy and still so with Eastwood's later westerns. It purposefully wants to be different from other westerns and is different from other westerns. It is effective in this way of making the hero much darker than most and the villain different than others. It is effective at what it wants to do very effective and is the perfect dark bleak western. Which means really it cannot be the best western because a Western still should be more entertaining than this which is more of just interesting.

Oscar Win Best Supporting Actor Gene Hackman 5/5- Hackman is great as Little Bill Daggit. He dominates every scene he is in perfectly even his two scenes with Eastwood. He does everything as the character that could have possibly been a stock character the evil Sheriff but Hackman adds a little more. His reaction to the writers comment on his abilities as a carpenter shows this.

Oscar Nominee Best Actor Clint Eastwood 4/5- This is the tailored made Eastwood role. He plays it as you would expect Eastwood would, although I feel he was not quite perfect in it although incredibly good. The intensity of his character is not perfectly done which Eastwood shows much better in the stadium scene in Dirty Harry.

Review by Ichabod Crane