THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS [1992] movie review
December 31, 2011 · Print This Article
I imagine the pitch to the studio for THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS started something like this, “Daniel Day-Lewis will look really, really cool running through the woods in deer skin clothes, long hair flowing back, toting a very long rifle.” He did in fact. The story itself is surprising too. A look at the Revolutionary War from the perspective of colonists semi on the British side.
MOHICANS really turns into a love store adventure. This I did not really buy at all. Day-Lewis is a super badass roaming the forests of upstate New York with his adoptive father and brother. They go anywhere and can do anything. How then in the middle of a huge war would he come to fall in love with the daughter of a British colonel? How could he possibly imagine they could be together? What logistics was he thinking? At least that’s what I was thinking. Plus, his lifestyle did not seem suitable to have a woman around.
Day-Lewis and family get involved when they rescue the daughter and her sister, and some stereotypical pompous British major from an ambush. The rest of the movie is all of them running through the woods.
The score comes on too heavy too often to force the viewer to feel some emotion. I thought it was really overbearing and not complementary like a score should be.
Still, the action sequences are top notch for hand-to-hand combat. I am not a fan of using slow motion to show fighting, but director Michael Mann used it effectively to show how someone loses in a hatchet and knife fight.
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