The Last of the Mohicans Reviews
Flix Capacitor
It's Mann's least Mann-like film, but also arguably his most rousing. The score is incredibly stirring, while it's great to see DDL play the hero.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It nicely blends together action, romance and history.
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| Original Score: B+
Common Sense Media
Violent historical drama. Not for young kids.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Turner Classic Movies Online
Though set twenty years before the declaration of independence, [director Michael] Mann offers a portrait of a country and a people who have already redefined themselves.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Positively sprints through its narrative, achieving the adventuresome spirit so hopelessly absent from Cooper's clumsy and simple novel.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Classic Film and Television
Has a grim, but overwhelming emotional effect.
FilmsInReview.com
Day-Lewis before he made shoes.
| Original Score: 4/5
TheMovieReport.com
An exciting, visually stunning, and satisfying epic adventure that is well worth the full price of admission.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Flipside Movie Emporium
A lush and irresistible historic adventure.
| Original Score: 4/5
Sun Newspapers of Cleveland
Simply terrific action film.
| Original Score: 5/5
Top Critic...the action is richly detailed and thrillingly staged.
Old School Reviews
remains faithful to the essential spirit of Cooper's work, and actually improves upon it
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| Original Score: B
eFilmCritic.com
The final 25 minutes earn a 5-star rating on their own.
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| Original Score: 10/10
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
...an immensely satisfying adventure that makes lavish use of the wide screen as it explores the landscapes of the really "Old West," while paying great attention to detail in costumes and set design as it re-creates the period.
He conceives of the story as if it were a gigantic piece of mood music.
Painstakingly, breathtakingly re-created by director Michael Mann, this landscape makes room for heroes with principles greater than the circumference of their biceps.
Mann wasn't thinking story, he was thinking scheme. Keep the eyes and ears dazzled, he reasons, and the substance will follow.
...not as authentic and uncompromised as it claims to be - more of a matinee fantasy than it wants to admit - but it is probably more entertaining as a result.
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| Original Score: 3/4
