Summary by Alan Thomas of MoviesMatter

An "unWestern," this film deconstructs the vengeance plot often seen in the Western genre. Clint Eastwood examines the price paid by a man who becomes a killer. In doing so, he mocks pulp adventure books, and his own early work in the "spaghetti Westerns" and later work. A grim and disturbing portrait of a complex and frightening man.

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