Michael Mann known for his crime thrillers dusts off James Fenimore Cooper's story for another shot. This time with more "open minded" attitudes about Native Americans the film seems to have a little more depth to it. Anyway we meet Daniel Day Lewis who is constantly on the run thoroughout the film. For a while this got to be a big joke with stand-up comedians. Lewis is Cooper's famous character Natty Bumpo a man with a lot of alias's (Hawkeye, Pathfinder, and the Deerslayer). The setting is the French/Indian war in American which ran about eight years I believe. Bumpo is off to save the lives of two daughters of a British Colonel, of course he falls in love with one of them.
Daniel Day Lewis is the epitome of the movie star with his handsome looks and his clearly pumped up body. His love interest is Madeline Stowe playing Cora Munro and their love scenes are bathed in either amber light of soft misty water from a waterfall. No question they are a very good looking couple. There is also a sort of secondary love story between Natty Bumpo's adopted Native American brother Uncas who clearly is attracted to Cora Munro's sister Alice. But nobody paid their money to watch a couple of supporting players fall in love, so their scenes are given pretty short shrift.
The battle scenes are quite exciting as is to be expected from Michael Mann. The film was shot in North Carolina on some spectacular forest locations. The soundtrack is epic and the photography from Dante Spinotti is excellent.
The film is very entertaining if a little to violent at times. Christopher Crowe and Michael Mann wrote the screenplay the film runs either 112 minutes or 117 minutes or 114 minutes due to Michael Mann's tendency to constantly reedit his films after they are finished.
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