Unforgiven

     Unforgiven is a film made in 1992 directed and produced by Clint Eastwood. Clint also was the lead actor in the movie playing William Munny, an ex-outlaw murderer who became a pig farmer and went towards a peaceful life because of his wife and kids. In the movie he wife had died of smallpox and now he's just raising his kids on his own out in the outskirts of Kansas. Let me walk you through the plot of this movie. Its a simple minded movie but this movie just does everything very well. Because its a newer Western it looks amazing visually. I'm used to more of the old school Westerns from the 60s and with John Wayne and Unforgiven looks a lot better visually because of the newer technology and cameras they had back in 1992. I decided to watch this film on Amazon Prime because I saw that it had four and a half stars. I figured it must be amazing. And so it was. Onto the story.
     The story starts out with this cowboy in a whorehouse and he's super pissed at this whore because, as we find out later, she saw how small his pecker was and she laughed at him. So this cowboy decides to take out his knife and starts cutting up this woman all over her face, and even tries to cut off her tits. Talk about an intense opening scene! Then the Sheriff named Little Bill comes and arrests the cowboy and his partner but in the end all they get is a whipping and they're off, free of charges. I guess back in those days nobody cared for whores because that's just plain wrong. Enter Clint Eastwood.
     In the next scene we see Clint wrangling up some pigs with a young boy and girl, his kids. This young cowboy comes to his farm and tells him he needs a partner to kill some cowboys who cut up this woman's face. At first Clint says that he's done with all that bad stuff and now he wants to live a normal life. However, in the end he says yes because he needs the money. The reward is $1,000 from the group of whores and back in 1878 that must've been a lot of money!
     Clint decides to pick up his buddy Ned for this job. Ned used to be a no good thief murderer like Clint too and they go way back. Ned's such a good shot with the rifle that he can take out a bird's eye as its flying in the air. And Ned is no other than Morgan Freeman! Talk about all star actors. It was cool seeing him play a no good cowboy and he did a great job playing a black cowboy.
      So the young cowboy, Ned, and Clint end up traveling up to Wyoming (I believe) to find out where these woman cutters were and Clint ends up getting beat the shit out of by Little Bill because Clint brought firearms into the town. The town is a gun free zone and Little Bill makes sure that everyone gets their guns taken away while they're there. The two other guys escape as Clint gets kicked the shit out of.
    Ned stitches up Clint and once he's out of danger and isn't going to die they all decide to go kill the cutter cowboys. At first Ned shoots his rifle at the guy but he misses. Then he gets all scared and decides he wants out of the whole thing. Clint takes his rifle and shoots one the cutter cowboys' partner. That guy ends up dying from the shot. Then Clint and the young cowboy look for the cutter cowboy and the young cowboy ends up killing him while he's on the john. Pretty fucked up but kind of funny that he died while taking a shit. Then Clint and his young partner ride off, to meet up with one of the whores so they can get their reward.
     When the woman gives them the reward she tells them that Little Bill ended up killing Ned. Clint gets super upset and decides that he's going back to town to kill Little Bill. This shows Clint's true bad ass side and his true evil nature from his days as a young man. So Clint ends up going to town and shooting up everybody at the saloon who goes who their pistols. He shoots Little Bill but he wasn't dead right away. Little Bill tries to shoot Clint with his pistol while he's on the ground but Clint stops him and blows him away. Great ending.
     Lastly, there's a lot of things that make this film great. The characters are interesting and memorable. The music is good. The action scenes and gun shooting is pretty good. The story is believable and the movie is memorable. Clint Eastwood's acting really made this movie great. His character is that stereotypical evil bad ass that has seen the light and now is trying to make up for his sins, not like anime stories like Ruroni Kenshin. I also liked how Morgan Freeman was in this movie too. He makes for a very unlikely bad ass cowboy but he fits in and does a great job here. I would say out of all the Westerns I've seen this one is one of the better ones as well as one of the most recent ones. It's a great movie and you should check it out. Clint Eastwood has gotten a lot older now and I don't think he does cowboy movies anymore but back in the day he couldn't be beat at Westerns. Westerns are what actually got me into movies and I'm a big fan of Clint and John Wayne. If I had to give this movie a rating I would give it a 9.5 out of 10. It wouldn't get a 10 only because the story is bit convoluted. There's some complex symbology here. It's actually about the wages of sin and going back to it instead of being good. It's good to see a newer Western that's actually a great movie because a lot of the newer ones aren't that great, in my professional opinion. Let me know what you think of Westerns, leave a comment.