Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Unforgiven

In the movie, Unforgiven, William Munny (Clint Eastwood), is an old retired murderer but gets brought back into "business" when a prostitute is cut in the brothel by a cowboy. The Schofield Kid, Jaimz Woolvett, seeks out Munny in hopes of killing all of the men involved and splitting the reward money. Munny agrees but keeps his promise to his dead wife, making the children behind and not cussing.

On the way to the town where the cutting took place, Munny rounds up his old partner-in-crime, Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman), who leaves his Native American wife and joins in the ranks. Kid, Logan, and Munny eventually make it to the town where they get kicked out by Little Bill Dagget (Gene Hackman). They make their way west and run into the troublemakers. Kid, by this time we know cannot see very far, takes about five shots to kill a man and Munny shoots him once to finally kill the cowboy. Logan becomes discouraged and leaves Munny and Kid for home. He does not make it.

The next scene we view is Ned Logan being whipped and eventually dying with his body being put out on display on the local bars front porch. Munny hears of this and returns to the bar, guns in hand. We next view a shoot out and of course Munny wins. Munny takes Logan's body and buries it himself. Munny returns home and back to his normal life.

If you cannot tell by my short and very bland writing, I did not like watching this film at all. I thought it was the most non-thrilling movie and completely boring. I understand that Clint Eastwood's character had not forgiven himself from his wife's death and had "changed his ways" but who cares? We all know that Eastwood's character would not die because he is Clint Eastwood. I gave this movie a 1 out of 10 and if you want to know why, read the above.

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