Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means

Three trappers protect a British Colonel's daughters in the midst of the French and Indian War.

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R, 2 hrs. 2 min.

Directed by: Michael Mann

Release Date: September 25, 1992

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DVD Release Date: November 23, 1999

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  • June 12, 2009
    Grew up watching 100's of times. I remember hearts being cut out of chests. couldn't have been too awful.
  • March 28, 2009
    I found the first half of the film surprisingly dull and the second much more exciting, I feel I need another viewing of this film to take it in better.
  • March 12, 2009
    "The first American hero."

    Three trappers protect a British Colonel's daughters in the midst of the French and Indian War.

    REVIEW
    Braveheart meets Dances With Wolves in this proto-Western set before the American Revolutionary War. The cinematography is brea...( read more)thtaking, the costumes and props are consistently realistic, and the great Trevor Jones score, with help from the Celtic group Clannad, is so moving it's an integral part of the experience (use good speakers, if at all possible). I don't buy soundtrack albums; I bought this one. I found the storytelling to be enthralling, especially given the fact that the story, although a classic, is really a bit of a lightweight, after all. If you've read Mark Twain's comments about James Fenimore Cooper and this book, never mind; this movie makes it all work. Day Lewis, Stowe and Means give top tier performances and I was particularly impressed with Wes Studi as Magua.

    The Last of the Mohicans is a must see for the cinematography alone and also, a love letter to history buffs out there.
  • November 27, 2008
    Everything about this movie was FRAUGHT WITH PASSION. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it could have used a few non-epic moments to balance things out.
  • November 24, 2008
    "I will find you!" Would that you will, Daniel Day-Louis. Would that you will...
  • November 7, 2009
    une belle histoire d'amour avec une vieille guerre en background
  • November 5, 2009
    beautiful love story
  • November 3, 2009
    Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans is a third-generation fiction: a film adapted from a film that was adapted from a novel.

    Chingachgook (Russell Means), his son Uncas (Eric Schweig), and Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis), his adopted white son; Cora Munro (Madeleine Stowe) and...( read more) her sister Alice (Jodhi May), their father, Colonel Edmund Munro (Maurice Roëves), and a native guide named Magua (Wes Studi) are all creations of James Fenimore Cooper and his novel of the same title. What everybody read about in the Last of the Mohicans was a romance of the forest, of Indians and Natty Bumppo (the white man who learned from them), of a society barely gone.

    The 1992 movie, however, is a romance, with a mixture of period setting and fictional characters, and a dose of twentieth-century spirituality to bring the noble savages up-to-date. It's a film with history as vivid and real and immediate as if it were being lived right now.

    Mann's new plot now explains, for instance why it needed a revolution: to protect the democratic, freedom-loving, interracial society from supercilious twits. Nathaniel (Day-Lewis), the white raised by Indians, is the emblem of this egalitarian society. Cora symbolizes the rejection of her dead (quite literally, by the end) European past. In its place, she embraces Nathaniel and America.
  • November 2, 2009
    It felt very random.
  • October 28, 2009
    Great entertaining epic, visually stunning, with nice performances and a beautiful score.

Critic Reviews


May 12, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

...the action is richly detailed and thrillingly staged. full review

January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

...not as authentic and uncompromised as it claims to be - more of a matinee fantasy than it wants to admit - but it is probably more entertaining as a result. full review

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Comments


  • MovieLover100
    December 22, 2007
    "Decent war epic directed by the extremely overrated Michael Mann. Totally cheesy but the action and battle sequences are pretty fucking tight. Daniel Day-Lewis has his moments, but the real highlight is the badass villain; played by Wes Studi."

    Reply to review:
    Michael Mann - Extremely verrated!?...What the hell are you talking about!?...If anything, Michael Mann is extremely underrated!
  • udontknowjack
    May 26, 2007
    I like the whole movie from start to finish. A good adventure and an accurate protrail of life in the 1700's and how tough and brutal it was.
  • SakuraRei
    May 21, 2007
    so what parts of the movie go u like..

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