The Last of the Mohicans: Director's Definitive Cut [Blu-ray] by Michael Mann, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means, Eric Schweig, Jodhi May: DVDNear.com

The Last of the Mohicans: Director's Definitive Cut [Blu-ray]

The Last of the Mohicans: Director's Definitive Cut [Blu-ray]
by Michael Mann

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Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Eric Schweig, Jodhi May, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means
Director: Michael Mann
Brand: Fox
Writer: Michael Mann
Writer: Christopher Crowe
Writer: Daniel Moore
Writer: James Fenimore Cooper
Writer: John L. Balderston
Writer: Paul Perez
Writer: Philip Dunne
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2010-10-05
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

Movie Reviews of The Last of the Mohicans: Director's Definitive Cut [Blu-ray]

Movie Review: Last of the Mohicans - a great nature/period classic on Blu-ray!
Summary: 5 Stars

1 Blu-ray disc, released October 5, 2010

"The Last of the Mohicans" was directed by Michael Mann and loosely based on the book by James Fenimore Cooper. The director and writers felt the novel was too simple and inaccurate to the times so they took it up a notch. The story is about three trappers who fight to protect the daughters of a British Colonel during the French and Indian War.

Daniel Day-Lewis plays Hawkeye who was raised by the Mohicans in their ways. The last Mohican, Chingachgook was played by Russell Means who was the first national director of the American Indian Movement and was in the 1973 standoff with the US government at Wounded Knee. Dennis Banks who played Ongewasgone was another member of this movement. The casting director and director really wanted authenticity in the movie and felt that these two would really add to the genuineness of the film by playing out their heritage.

The British are asking the Colonials who live off the land and fend for themselves to fight for the British in the war and give the guarantee that they will be allowed to go back and defend their homes if the battle goes there, a promise which is broken. Hawkeye refuses to get involved from the beginning, but when his group comes upon a war party targeting the daughters of Col. Munro, he saves them and later begins a relationship with the elder daughter, Cora played by Madeleine Stowe. Her sister, Alice is played by Jodhi May. Later the two are kidnapped by Huron Magua played by Wes Studi and pursued over great distances by the Mohicans ("I will find you!!").

What this movie excels in is excitement, beauty in nature, demonstrating the raw bravery of the time fending for yourself in the wilderness, and the musical scores are neverending, gorgeous, and will NOT get out of your head for DAYS afterward. It had five wins and 10 nominations for Awards that year, winning the Oscar for Best Sound and some British acting awards for Daniel Day-Lewis.

Special Features:

This is a great film to get the Blu-ray treatment. Look at the scenery!! Once the camera pans over in this widescreen format and you get a good look at those mountains and trees and dudes running uphill with their guns with the music swelling up, it's all movie magic. My only complaints would be that in dark scenes, the Blu-ray does not adapt 100% and gets confused. My particular Blu-ray had a meltdown after the long series of dark scenes between Hawkeye and Cora and I spent a long time trying to re-load it. The Blu-ray has director commentary with Michael Mann which goes over a lot of the same information in the making-of feature but also talks about more details like locations, how hard they were to get to, the challenges of using natural lighting, etc.

The Making of Feature includes interviews with actors, the director, the casting director, and sound/score people. They spend a great deal of time on the story and why it was so important to deviate from the book in the manner they did and also how they cast the roles and the training that took place. Daniel Day-Lewis had to complete a survivalist bootcamp, learn how to fire a gun, and load it while running uphill. They knew from his infamous method acting in "My Left Foot" that he would take everything to heart and just be Hawkeye during the shoot. The score is based off a Celtic tune that the director's wife heard one day and they decided based on Hawkeye's heritage that they wanted to use it with some variations. The interviews appear fresh and are in high-definition. This is a great one to pick up for fans of this film and nature in general. The last time I saw this movie was on a VHS tape so it'll blow your mind.

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Summary of The Last of the Mohicans: Director's Definitive Cut [Blu-ray]

An epic adventure and passionate romance unfold against the panorama of a frontier wilderness ravaged by war. Academy Award(R) winner Daniel Day-Lewis (Best Actor in 1989 for My Left Foot) stars as Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Madeleine Stowe is Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a proud British Colonel. Their love, tested by fate, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies that engulfs the majestic mountains and cathedral-like forests of Colonial America.

Wildly romantic, daringly exciting, Michael Mann's film of James Fenimore Cooper's novel created a new babe magnet out of Daniel Day-Lewis, he of the heaving pecs and flowing mane. As Hawkeye, he plays an American settler raised by the Mohicans who is forced to serve as a guide for British adventurism in upstate New York. But the British have been outflanked by the French (and their Indian allies); then British honor is betrayed when a band of renegades assaults them during their retreat. Mann captures the viciousness of this era's hand-to-hand combat in startling battle scenes. But he also invests the film with heartfelt romance, as the feelings swell between Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stowe. The ending is a stunner, a long, nearly wordless sequence of battle and loss. Strong performances all around, particularly by Russell Means as Chingachgook and Wes Studi as the evil Magua. --Marshall Fine

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