The Last of the Mohicans (THX Widescreen Edition) | Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe

The Last of the Mohicans (THX Widescreen Edition) | Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe | A classic

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	The Last of the Mohicans (THX Widescreen Edition) Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe 20th Century Fox, 1996 average customer review:based on 500 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Wildly romantic, daringly exciting, Michael Mann's film of James Fenimore Cooper's novel created a new babe magnet out of Daniel Day-Lewis, he of the heaving pecs and flowing mane. As Hawkeye, he plays an American settler raised by the Mohicans who is forced to serve as a guide for British adventurism in upstate New York. But the British have been outflanked by the French (and their Indian allies); then British honor is betrayed when a band of renegades assaults them during their retreat. Mann captures the viciousness of this era's hand-to-hand combat in startling battle scenes. But he also invests the film with heartfelt romance, as the feelings swell between Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stowe. The ending is a stunner, a long, nearly wordless sequence of battle and loss. Strong performances all around, particularly by Russell Means as Chingachgook and Wes Studi as the evil Magua. --Marshall Fine

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THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS

THIS IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL. WONDERFUL SCENERY AND GREAT ACTING.
THE MUSIC IS ENCHANTING TOO. VERY REALISTIC VIEW OF THE PERIOD.

A classic

I watch this several times a year. I own most of the movies ever made of "The Last of the Mohicans". I enjoy them all, but this is my favorite (even though I can't get over the production crew member in his red ball cap showing up in a shot when the British are leaving the fort after the surrender to the French). So much for professional editing. This is about the only thing (other than "Their Will Be Blood")that I have liked Daniel Day Lewis in. This is a classic.

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Soap-opera in pre-revolutionary America

Hollywood-ized adaption of James Fennimore Cooper's classic novel. Great scenery and action but soap opera story and sappy romance give this the feel of one of those 70/80s TV miniseries.

Epic Hollywood Film Set In The French And Indian War

Nathaniel (Daniel Day-Lewis) falls in love with Cora (Madeleine Stowe), while serving as a guide for the British army during the French and Indian War. On the plus side, the cinematography is gorgeous and the story maintains a reasonable degree of historical accuracy, at least by Hollywood standards. But this is also "epic filmaking" at it's most melodramatic and overwrought. For example, there is tons of slow-motion camera work, usually of DDL running through the wilderness or making some impossibly accurate rifle shot.

In addition, the characters lack nuance, with Nathaniel depicted as a hero of near mythic proportions and Magua (Wes Studi) as the evil, treacherous Huron villan. To the film's credit, the British were shown to have a few "bad guys" as well, including Cora's father Colonel Munro. Also the Huron's chief castigates Magua for his vengeful excesses and going against the "Huron Way". So at least the entire tribe is not shown to be villanous.

If you like epic Hollywood film making, full of romance, action and melodrama, then you will likely appreciate this movie, as it is well made for a film of this type. But for folks like me, who prefer a simpler and more realistic style of film making, it will only be of moderate interest.

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