- Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman
- Summary: In this Academy Award winning western, Eastwood and Freeman are down-on-their-luck outlaws who pick up their guns one last time in order to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of remote Big Whiskey, Wyoming.
- Director: Clint Eastwood
- Genre(s): Drama, Crime, Western
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 17 out of 21
-
Mixed: 3 out of 21
-
Negative: 1 out of 21
-
100This dark, melancholic film is a reminder -- never more necessary than now -- of what the American cinema is capable of, in the way of expressing a mature, morally complex and challenging view of the world. [7 Aug 1992]
-
60As a moral reconsideration of the role of violence in previous Eastwood films, this is strong and sure, and characters who play against genre expectations give the film a provocative aftertaste. The only limitation, really, is that the picture hasn't much dramatic urgency apart from its revisionist context.
-
30At the last, we're left with a film that tries to doll up a conventional genre with hints of depth, hoping to disguise the cross-dressing by putting it in the shape of an epic. Murnau, Mizoguchi, Ford, even you authors of the Book of Genesis, rest easy. [12 Oct 1992]
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 17 out of 19
-
Mixed: 2 out of 19
-
Negative: 0 out of 19
-
10
-
-
10
-
-
4
-
Trailers
Related Articles
-
Published: June 28, 2011Can actors direct themselves? We reveal the best and worst movies in our database that were directed by one of the film's stars, a list that runs from "Do the Right Thing" to "Miss March." -
Published: June 15, 2010"Jonah Hex" (opening Friday) is, among other things, a western -- a genre that seems uncommon these days. But the past 25 years have seen a number of great examples of the genre, as well as a failure or two. Find out which westerns made our list(s).