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List Price: $14.98 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DTS Surround Sound • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 25 September, 1992 DVD Release : 23 January, 2001 |
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The Last of the Mohicans (Director's Expanded Edition) description 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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| James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans" was written about a time when the frontier was in upstate New York. Director Michael Mann transforms Cooper's tale into an action movie, if only loosely based on the original story.
Daniel Day-Lewis is superbly authentic as Hawkeye, a white man and adopted Mohican, who travels the upper Hudson River Valley with Indian companions Chingachgook (Russell Means) and Uncas (Eric Schweig). The opening sequence, in which the party hunts a deer and then must deal with a hostile Indian raiding party, sets the tone of the movie. The American frontier is dark, dangerous, and caught in the middle of a war between the French and the British. Hawkeye and his friends end up escorting the daughters of British Colonel Munro to Fort William Henry, under siege by the French, and their Indian allies under the evil Huron warrior Magua (in a menacing performance by Wes Studi). Hawkeye will fall in love with Cora Munro (Madeleine Stowe), and the dramatic thread of the movie will be their efforts to stay alive long enough to be together. When the fort must be surrendered, the British are granted safe passage by the French to leave the area, a promise not honored by the vengeful Indians under Magua. The resulting massacre is portrayed as an extended and vicious fighting sequence. Hawkeye and his friends will pursue the kidnapped Cora and bloodthirty Magua, triggering a last violent confrontation that not all will survive. As noted, this movie is only loosely based on the original tale, which was more about the Mohicans and less about Hawkeye. However, Mann makes up for it with lush imagery of the Colonial American frontier and some gritty action sequences, producing a suspenseful reimagining of the story that should keep viewers hooked to the end. |
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