<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section does not cite any sources . Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (September 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section does not cite any sources . Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (September 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Despite the film taking place in upstate New York, according to the film credits, it was filmed mostly in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina . Locations used include Lake James, Chimney Rock Park and The Biltmore Estate . Some of the waterfalls that were used in the movie include Hooker Falls, Triple Falls, Bridal Veil Falls, and High Falls, all located in the DuPont State Recreational Forest . Another of these falls was Linville Falls, in the mountains of North Carolina . Scenes of Albany were shot in Asheville, NC at The Manor on Charlotte St . </P> <P> The Last of the Mohicans opened to general acclaim, with critics praising the film for its cinematography and music . Critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun - Times gave the film three stars and called it "quite an improvement on Cooper's all but unreadable book, and a worthy successor to the Randolph Scott version," going on to say that "The Last of the Mohicans is not as authentic and uncompromised as it claims to be--more of a matinee fantasy than it wants to admit--but it is probably more entertaining as a result ." </P>

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