Film Review: The Last Of The Mohicans

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The Last of the Mohicans is a captivating drama filled film with great acting and cinematography, but has some complicated subplots and overplayed fight scenes. The movie is set in 1757 during the French and Indian War. The film is built around three Indian/frontiersman (Nathaniel, Uncas, and Chingachgook). They get mixed in with the young Major Duncan and the two Munroe sisters after an ambush on their traveling party. These three are then guided to the fort by the frontiersman, where they find it under French attack. After the fort surrenders to the French, the two sisters are kidnapped by the hostile Indian tribe after a long battle and escape attempt. The attempt to save them costs several lives. The main actors in this film do a very good job. The main character Nathaniel Hawkeye, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, has few lines in the movie, but portrays the character wonderfully through his actions and stagger. A good example of this is the ambush after the English …show more content…

It is not a lack of graphics or goriness that is the problem. The deaths and injuries in the battles are just unrealistic. For example, when the fort is under attack a man walking along the top of the fort is hit by a musket shot, and he goes flying in the direction that the bullet came from, over the edge of the fort. There is no way that could be realistic. He could have fell off the other side of the railing, and I would have believed it. Another example is when the cannon balls are being rained down among the French soldiers, and people forty yards away are falling at the explosion. That is just not believable. When the ambush happens and the French allied Indians attack from both sides, no one is caught in the cross fire, or if a British soldier is whacked with a tomahawk it takes him three minutes to fall and then rolls around in six circles. I thought the extra actors could have done a much better job in all of these scenes by not over dramatizing the