IMDb plot summary: Three trappers protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War.
Directed by Michael Mann. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, and Russell Means.
The Last of the Mohicans is an adaptation of the James Fenimore Cooper novel about two women who need to be escorted to the fort where their British father is stationed during the French and Indian War. However, their guide deliberately leads them into an ambush, and the women only narrowly escape with the help of a handful of Mohicans who then try to lead them to safety. Apparently the film is a significant deviation from the book, although I have never read it so I can't compare. I can say this is the kind of bloated historical epic that was so widely loved in the 1990s that I just can never enjoy apart from some nice cinematography. And, of course, Daniel Day-Lewis is good as always. But I just come out of the other end of this completely unaffected. I don't feel like I've been invited to understand or feel or experience anything about the situation I've watched unfold, and so I don't take anything away from it.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Last of the Mohicans < Ripley's Game
The Last of the Mohicans < Ivan the Terrible, Part One
The Last of the Mohicans > Three Guys Named Mike
The Last of the Mohicans > The Fast and the Furious
The Last of the Mohicans > It's Always Fair Weather
The Last of the Mohicans < Treasure Planet
The Last of the Mohicans < MASH
The Last of the Mohicans > Boys Don't Cry
The Last of the Mohicans > Bright Young Things
The Last of the Mohicans < Make Mine Music
The Last of the Mohicans > Pinocchio
Final spot: #2810 out of 3627, or 23%.
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