Tropes and other things that didn't sit well with me.

1) DDL yells in ludicrously overblown manner "I will find you, however long it takes" - then finds her less than 5 mins later in runtime. Epicness.

2) Soldier who is a fairly appalling and lying human has a complete character transplant in his last scene and sacrifices himself to save the life of a man he hates so much he lied about him so that he might be hanged.

3) Melodrama with a needless solo attempt at a clifftop rescue, rather than wait for his father and brother, who were about 1 minute behind, to help even out the odds. Dies just in time for father and son to see his last breath.

4) followed by a lady throwing herself to her death for no obvious reason and.... sister arrives just in time to see her draw her last breath

5) women who need to stop because they are too tired on horseback in the first half of the film become mountain goats able to ascend steep hills on foot with ease in the second half at the same speed as running male Native Americans.

6) the Last Mohican gets about his only line in English, right at the end of the film. His son (also of colour) gets almost no lines. But the white son? Well we know how that goes.

7) some of the admittedly nice music seemingly looped to death. One piece seemed to go on for near 5mins

8) let's just stand and stare at a vista... for a very long time.

9) unusual military tactic of running solo into an armed convoy to attack one British soldier by hand, thereby completely destroying any element surprise your side had when they attack about a minute later.

10) picking up two single fire rifles and firing them, one in each hand with pinpoint accuracy.

11) 3 Native Americans, hostile to being pawns of the British army, attack a rival indigenous group, whilst horribly outnumbered 10 to 1 in order to save uh... British soldiers. Absolutely no attempt to establish motivation for massively risking their lives that I could see.

In short, I have no idea why people put this on a pedestal. The 20mins around the fort siege were very good in almost every way, but otherwise this was all kinds of silly with pretty ordinary dialogue and acting.

5/10