keelhaul-80856
The Good= This film has great music(one of my favorite soundtracks), a good cast, a strong story(from J.F. Cooper), great scenery, and an epic feel. Enough action and scenery and sensible revenge to make it watchable. Magua was a good character that you disliked, but could identify with his motivations and sympathize with his reasons.The Bad= Underdeveloped characters, who get little time to explain anything about their relations with other characters or how they feel about anything. Some boring parts of the script, and lackluster moments or additions to the storyline that didn't further the plot or your interest. Also, the sound seems too quiet for the whispering dialogue in places when I watch on a DVD player. Oh, and the intimate dynamic of the relationships between Alice and Uncas, and Hawkeye and Cora, seem edited out like something was missing. Really artificial story telling with gaps.The Ugly= One of the worst things about this movie was the sanitized violence. I don't enjoy torture porn or violence just to be over the top, but really??? So many tomahawk strikes, knife stabs, bullet wounds, etc. with no blood or gore. It would have really given the movie more realism and depth to hear a loud chop of a weapon and see more blood flowing like "The Patriot" or "Braveheart", and been more satisfying. Some of the fight choreography and realism seemed really sanitized. I also found Lewis(though a good actor) to possibly be a mismatch for this role, and too "pretty" for a white man living in the woods all day.
Fluke_Skywalker
Plot; The white adopted son of a Mohican Chief and the daughter of a British Colonel fall in love against the backdrop of the French and Indian War.Walking a very fine line between historical drama and overheated melodrama, The Last of the Mohicans never quite excels at either. Nevertheless, it's reasonably compelling thanks to top shelf performances from its cast, an epic score by Trevor Jones (with a late game assist by Randy Edelman) and the steady hand of director Michael Mann.
tassos-chaldoup
It's amazing how a movie that came out in 1992 can withstand the passage of time and still be that good to watch. The special effects are prety basic (its he 90s be reasonable) but it still looks more realistic than any blockbuster movie you will see, and the reason for that is the superb acting from the basic characters to the secondary to the background actors and that goes to show directors Michael Manns vision and charisma.Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stowe have a special kind of on screen chemistry that goes to show the superb casting of this movie.But the acting asside the realism of this movies climate is unique and can very difficulty be created again today. Its truly a must watch that also withstands rewatches and rerewatches and so on.9/10 from me
