The Last of the Mohicans

Daniel Day-Lewis excels as Hawkeye in Michael Mann’s exhilarating adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper’s novel.

  • Director

    Michael Mann

  • With

    Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means, Wes Studi, Jodhi May

  • USA 1992. 115min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    12A

Mann’s version of James Fenimore Cooper’s novel centres on an electrifying performance by Day Lewis as Hawkeye, a white man adopted in childhood by the Mohicans, now caught up in war and political intrigue in the mountain wilderness of upstate New York in the mid-18th century. At once packed with historical detail and epic in conception, the film mixes action, romance and suspense to exhilarating effect.