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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 0024543010883 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Languages: Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox MPN: 2001089 Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Publisher: 20th Century Fox Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 23, 2001 Running Time: 117 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: September 25, 1992 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: 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 Description: An epic adventure and passionate romance unfold against the panorama of a frontier wilderness ravaged by war. Academy Award® winner Daniel Day-Lewis (Best Actor in 1989 for My Left Foot) stars as Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Madeleine Stowe is Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a proud British Colonel. Their love, tested by fate, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies that engulfs the majestic mountains and cathedral-like forests of Colonial America. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A classicI 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. Rating:  - Epic Hollywood Film Set In The French And Indian WarNathaniel (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 ... Read More Rating:  - Lost its SoulWhat a disappointment! Sadly, when the director, Michael Mann, decided to cut the Clannad song, "No Matter Where You Go, I'll Find You," (not to mention the best one liners) from the 'Expanded' version, he ruined it. If the visuals are the heart of the film, it is still stunning. It looks good in HD. But without the ethereal, hauntingly beautiful music in the background of Hawkeye's tracking scenes, the sense of desperation and despair - the soul of the film - is simply gone. ... Read More Rating:  - The director's expanded edition dissapointmentI bought this movie a while back on DVD glad to see when it came out. Excited I put it in as soon as I got it. Probably the biggest disappointment I've had in a long time. It was no where near as good as the VHS. Much of the dialogue is removed, including the before mentioned conversation between hawkeye and cora and several others. Some scenes and dialogue were added, but mostly deletes. The sound track does not align with the scenes very well. It is obviously bent and stretched to accomodate the ... Read More Rating: - Hauntingly beautiful and with a great soundtrack... (and much better then the novel)It distorted somewhat (for the better) the original novel (which is a "classic" but quite difficult to read due to the contrived prose). The exteriors are one of the best ever in a production of adventure&action films and the cast is PERFECT. It is a savage land which makes for a sad and cruel "natural" story, after all it is untamed territory and the characters live dangerously. The soundtrack is a must and contribute to the atmosphere like a close fitting glove. Read More |
