I saw this first at the age of nearly 18 in the theater and it forever changed me. This picture has been a high-water mark to me ever since that day and I have seen it more times through than I can hope to remember. From the tack-sharp script-writing to the spectacular cinematography, the blistering performances to the impeccable costuming, and the phenomenal score to the achingly beautiful sequences in which so much is told that is faithful to Cooper's work, successfully saying as much as his many words with nearly an absence of dialog, this film is a triumph from the first frame to the last. Unforgettable. PLEASE, bring us the 4K master and Bluray HDR release that this epic deserves.

Loved this movie, Day-Lewis and Stowe are so good when acting off one another in close up like after the Cameron massacre. Day-Lewis as gives us such a tight performance. His playing against been an English type is as per usual. He does not seem able to take up the battle for the land of his father in any work. What happened to him walking and talking to the Celts of Western Europe has a profound effect on his craft, as one born in London at about the same time but brought back "Home" so often I never can recall ever feeling anything but not English. It's the strangest belonging. An Englishman can be British, an Irishman can be nothing else. This forms such moments in "The Mohicans" when there are stretches of silence between Stowe and Day-Lewis. Mann's making (rather than) directing is not like any other movie I know of his. He trusts the cast to play their parts with such honesty and the gorgeous New York Hudson Valley background, the colours, sounds, the Bobcat looking at Stowe are a delight, are a full star in their own right. This movie is not like anything that is made now, maybe it too is the last hurrah of a by gone age just like the Mohican. Watch, watch it slowly, catch as much as you can and come back to it again some night you are on your own. I think it may become one of your all time favorite movies. Enjoy

This is a contemporary version of an age old American classic. We have the standard James Fennimore Cooper novel with Hawkeye and Chingachgook. A group of pioneer women are kidnapped from a fort in upstate New York. The Mohicans are an incredibly violent tribe. The settlers are slowly being massacred because they pose a threat to the indigenous people. Hawkeye and his Indian partner are given the task of keeping people safe. They are wise to the way things operate. This is one of the most violent films I've seen. Daniel Day Lewis plays the famous woodsman. Over the edge interpretation of a signature book. However, not for the squeamish.

Plot In A Paragraph: Three trappers protect a British Colonel's daughters in the midst of the French and Indian War.I think this is a fantastic watch, but I have watched last of the Mohicans three times now, and every time I watch it, it seems to be a different movie.I first seen it in when I rented the video in the early 90's and I loved it. I never rewatched it, until I bought the DVD in the 2000's and I felt like I was watching a totally different version of the movie, and it lost something for me. And here in 2016, watching a bluray I have borrowed from a friend, I again feel like I am watching a different movie to the one I viewed in the last two decades. Pacing, editing, tone, score, dialogue and at times acting seems totally different to how I remember. It's still a great movie, filled with some fantastic performances, a great use of scenery and colours and truthfully whilst she has been hotter in other movies (Stakeout being my personal favourite) I don't think Madeline Stowe has been better. Daniel Day Lewis is superb in almost everything, however I have always hated his "I will find you" Speech. Don't know why lol Last Of The Mohicans was Maans first big directorial hit, bagging Oscar nominations and finishing the year the 17th Highest Grossing movie of 1992 with a domestic gross of $75 million.