Anchored by a performance of almost Zen-like calm and focus by a lithe Daniel Day-Lewis and another of muted but fierce intensity by Madeleine Stowe, it is nothing less than a cinematic second coming.

| Dec 15, 2023

The rest of us can revel in what is certainly the best historically minded Hollywood movie since Glory, one that respects the intelligence of its story, its characters and its audience.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 15, 2023

As an amoral and anti-political period piece, deeply invested in the futility of war, the movie's brute splendor is all the more moving because it's so extravagantly doomed.

| Dec 15, 2023

A film that restores to the screen what it used to do best: grandeur of scale, intimacy of people, generosity of emotion, a subtext of saga and legend. Oh hell, what’s the word for it? Yes, “epic.”

| Dec 15, 2023

In a sense, Mr. Mann has returned to the very roots of motion pictures. With its tumultuous flow of music and images, “Mohicans” is like a long-lost something from the era of silent movies.

| Dec 15, 2023

The Last Of The Mohicans manages a remarkable double life. It is pure escapism, traditional heroics writ huge. Yet it is also realistic, each and every inch imbued with authenticity and conviction.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 15, 2023

As for Daniel Day-Lewis, he proves once again that he is one of those chameleons who can play absolutely anything with complete conviction.

| Dec 15, 2023

The violence is brutal and graphic, yet compelling. Such realism may keep away the light of heart, but those hungry for rich fare made expressly for the big screen will devour this epic with heart and soul.

| Dec 15, 2023

[Michael Mann's] sheer enthusiasm for his creation makes the film almost irresistible entertainment.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 15, 2023

A fierce, combustible, charismatic performance, Day-Lewis' Nathaniel Poe, a.k.a. Hawkeye, a.k.a. the Long Carabine, is the great glue that holds together Michael Mann's visceral, nearly abstract version of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 15, 2023

The movie is a piece of design, like one of Mann's 온라인카지노추천 series, and it makes little dramatic sense. Mann sees everything visually -- as an effect. He loads these effects one atop the other as the movie grandly slips through his fingers.

| Dec 15, 2023

Anyone familiar with Mann's popular 온라인카지노추천 series, Miami Vice, should recognize the similarities wreaked here... The transformation of The Last of the Mohicans into Adirondack Vice is thus a successful and intentional disaster.

| Dec 15, 2023

The graphic scalping and constant bloodshed leave the audience feeling merely exhausted instead of genuinely moved.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 15, 2023

The Last of the Mohicans is grand entertainment. Romantic, exciting, though unremittingly violent at times, it is rich in frontier lore and in its respect for the land that conquering settlers too often take for granted.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 15, 2023

This is James Fenimore Cooper, not James Joyce -- but Mann clearly admires his source. He has taken on The Last of the Mohicans as a Big Story, and he has dressed it out as epic. It works pretty well, too.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 15, 2023

The scene where Hawkeye and Cora slip into the dark to release their passion is a modern film anomaly; fully clothed, they manage to burn a hole in the screen merely through the passion of their embrace, their kissing. What a concept!

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 15, 2023

The Last of the Mohicans isn't a classic, but it's one of the most exciting action pictures to come along in recent memory. Next to a movie like this, Dances with Wolves looks like a cotillion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 15, 2023

Well-acted, well-paced and handsome, Mann's version of The Last of the Mohicans has a vast, occasionally numbing splendor: It's a Ben Hur of the frontier.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 15, 2023

If Mann's going to gain a reputation, it's as a master of the broad stroke. A David Lean is budding, if only he could get a handle on an unwieldy screenplay.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 15, 2023

James Fenimore Cooper's antique novel about honor and loyalty, The Last of the Mohicans, has been transformed into a veritable tone poem for the screen -- a brooding, bruised, visual feast designed by Michael Mann.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 15, 2023