The recreation of the French and Indian War-era around the 1750s is slick, elaborate, sweeping and believable, really setting the time without bearing down on you, and it all goes captured by some decent and, at times, also sweeping cinematography. However, the film manages to hobble its way back up above mediocrity, because although it doesn't at all satisfy as thoroughly as it should, you still walk away having some degree of respect for this film, or, at the very least, its production. A lot of these films felt rather sappy and over-spirited, and this film is far from an exception, not being unrelentingly overbearing in its sentimentality, but still delivering just enough of the sap to throw your blood sugar level pretty high up on the charts, delivering yet another good, clean lick to this film and leaving it to fall limp and, yes, even, in some regards, borderline amateur. The film feels too similar to other films of its type, both in storytelling and tone, as it adopts too many familiar tropes that can be foun in similar films and yes, among those themes adopted is, unfortunately, sentimentality. The film is so very slow, when not rather thrown-together, resulting in an epic that lacks in the way of punch, and it doesn't help that the film is also so very conventional. Still, even more bothersome than the rushing is, well, the slowing down, because when the film does find time to take a break, things get too quiet and too dry for their own good, leaving the film to, at points, fall limp as, not simply underwhelming, but just plain boring. Some moments of exposition fall limp in the heat of the rushing, creating some gaps in the resonance of the film and leaving it to somewhat go a touch convoluted, as the intrigue is all over the place and the story feels glossed over, making it difficult to exactly discern just what in the world is to be felt or mainly focused upon. Well, to be fair, he can play anything well, including a Native American, as we see here, and yet, he's not enough to drown up this film's many, many flaws.įirst off, allow me to emphasize that I said that this film "stands as pretty enjoyable", even with its being too brief to be an epic, not "works", for although the film does, more often not, comfortably fill out the clock, there are plenty of points that feel rushed. Oh no, I don't just mean that it's obvious that the Hawkeye character in this film is an adoptee I mean that it's obvious that Day-Lewis, in real life, has to be some kind of an adoptee, because he plays an old-school American too well to be born English. Of course, then I watched the trailer and saw him talking about, "ain't" and whatnot, and pretty much knew that there was absolutely no way he wasn't adopted. I just figured that he heard that Michael Mann was doing a film about Indians and, thinking that it had something to do with "Ghandi", went down to audition for an expansion on that random Colin kid that he showed up somewhere as, and yet they took him anyways, even if was too white to be a Mohican, because, come on, like any self-respecting filmmaker is going to turn down the chance to work with Daniel Day-Lewis.
Well, to be fair, for me to be satisfied, this film would only have to tell me just what in the world a Mohican is, because I was thinking that it was some kind of Native American, until they dropped the name Daniel Day-Lewis, who is about as white as it gets.
1999 TO 2017 NATIVE INDIAN DVD MOVIE
Michael Mann couldn't make a movie about a guy uncovering the secrets of a cigarette company on "60 Minutes" without it coming three minutes shy of tacking on a 1 in front of that 60 in the 60 minutes, but hey, this film still stands as pretty enjoyable.
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