Generally westerns depict lawbreakers vs. law enforcers although the lines are blurred in some cases. Unforgiven wipes those lines away while failing to replace them with character or overview of anything but slaughter. People are driven by money, revenge, power, sadistic impulse and hero worship, never by love, beauty, hope or clarity. It is very well made but left me feeling empty. The movies that claim my top rating are repeatedly watchable, and that means they have an understandable human drive toward the better in some form. Even Goodfellas has an overview of humanity that offers insight into what makes those gangsters that way they are, presenting them as people caught up in a part that they can't see themselves playing. Unforgiven lacks a heart.
Review of Unforgiven
