In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.
"An epic adventure and passionate romance unfold against the panorama of a frontier wilderness ravaged by war."
Top Billed Cast
Daniel Day-Lewis
Hawkeye
Madeleine Stowe
Cora
Jodhi May
Alice
Russell Means
Chingachgook
Wes Studi
Magua
Eric Schweig
Uncas
Steven Waddington
Heyward
Maurice Roëves
Colonel Munro
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
J John ChardVerified TMDB Critic
2017-05-18
Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.
The Last of the Mohicans is directed by Michael Mann who also co-adapts the screenplay with Christopher Crowe from James Fenimore Cooper's novel of the same name. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means, Eric Schweig, Jodhi May, Steven Waddington and Wes Studi. Music is scored by Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman and cinematography by Dante Spinotti.
1757 during the French and Indian War, Hawkeye (Lewis), a white man who was adopted by the Mohicans, finds himself on a perilou...
C CinemaSerfVerified TMDB Critic
2023-08-09
It might seem a bit petty, but as a Scot watching a film about a Canadian conflict in which half the characters - "Munro", "Campbell", "Cameron" et al are all Scottish, I found the constant interchangeability in the script between English and British really quite irritating. They are not synonymous terms - is it just lazy writing? Anyway, the rest of this is a great looking adaptation of a solid boy's-own story that tells of the war in North America between the French and the British. The former under the command of "Montcalm" (Patrice Chéreau) are laying siege to the fort held by the latter ...
