The One
The One
PG-13 | 02 November 2001 (USA)
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A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills.

Reviews
Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.
Motompa Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.
Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Python Hyena The One (2001): Dir: James Wong / Cast: Jet Li, Delroy Lindo, Carla Gugino, Jason Statham, James Morrison: About individuality in a film that makes no sense at all. It regards the many versions of Jet Li killing off one another until one dominates. Seeing Li play one role can be difficult. Watching him play 23 is total overkill. We are suppose to believe that there is three universes and three of every individual. Don't ever feed that information to a struggling alcoholic. Anyway, the evil Li wishes to destroy the poorly dubbed versions so that he can rule the world. We know that it will come down to a big playground fist fight. Wow! How exciting! I just hope that the other versions of Li are not lazy or on welfare or the dominating version will look like one big stupid ass. Director James Wong has fun with the action, and the production is great, but Li has way too much screen time. Perhaps playing 23 versions of himself gives him a better shot at the Oscars. Others who wrongly figured this as a good career move are Delroy Lindo, Carla Gugino and Jason Statham. They will hopefully move beyond this and onto better things, like playing checkers or a really great game of charades. There is no reason to see this junk unless one has a sick desire to witness someone kick their face kicked in. If video outlets are looking to junk any one film in their library then this is the one. Score: 2 / 10
dworldeater The One is Jet Li's stand alone science fiction vehicle. I would not regard this as essential viewing for Jet Li fans or the sci fi crowd. However, The One still is a pretty decent sci fi/ action buttkicker in its own right and brings a lot of fast paced, action packed entertainment. I would say The One has a lot in common with both Time Cop and The Matrix. There is the occasional nod to Highlander as well. In this film, there are parallel universes and Jet Li travels through the multiverse killing off alternate versions of himself and absorbs their energy. Now only two versions of himself remain and good Jet must fight evil Jet, so evil Jet does not upset balance in the universe. I dig the premise of the film, but it is kind of sold short here with a lack of substance. Although the selling point of this movie is action, I would have liked more of a story and character development. The finished product is a pretty average and straight forward action movie with a sci fi backdrop. Although the story is very simple, the fight scenes are not and is one of the finer qualities of the film. Corey Yuen choreographs the intense and very complex fight scenes. To watch Jet fight is an excellent reason to watch the film and in that area, Jet excels and is in a class of his own. Even though this is PG 13 action, the scfi elements make the action interesting and I don't feel if the violence was more impactful that the film would be any better. Jason Statham gives a real good early performance as a multiverse agent(cop) and he probably put more effort into this performance than he does in a lot of his other projects where he is cast as the lead in the future. The soundtrack for The One is a negative aspect for me as I despise the genre of nu metal and watching The One is a constant reminder of one of the many reasons the late90's/early00's really sucked. I'm sure it was an attempt to get the Hot Topic kids to buy movie tickets. If I was deaf I would have enjoyed this more, but even with the horrible and really stupid music of Papa Roach, Disturbed and Drowning Pool The One is still a decent watch.
Maziun *SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS This little stinker rips off many movies : „ Matrix " , "Highlander" and even Van Damme's "Timecop". The lack of originality wouldn't hurt so much , if the movie was enjoyable . It isn't . It's a big budget B-movie . Crap fest from beginning to end.Director James Wong is mostly known for "Final destination" . That movie also had ridiculous idea behind the whole plot , yet it was quite enjoyable. Mostly because it had some twists all along the way and characters you could relate to."The One" doesn't have anything . The story is predictable from the beginning to the end , unless you have IQ lower than Forrest Gump . The characters aren't written at all . They lack depth and it's sad to see how actors struggle to give them some illusion of humanity.Compared to the movies I've mentioned in the beginning "The One" sucks terribly . "Matrix" basically pioneered the whole "bullet time" effect . "The One" rips off the "bullet time" so badly I almost died laughing. "Matrix" had substance and interesting universe . Don't look for that in "The One"."Highlander" had heart and affecting love story , not to mention great rock songs by Queen . Here the love story is dreadfully generic , the movie has no heart and the soundtrack contains awful modern rock songs."Tmecop" had many small twists that made it an enjoyable popcorn movie. Here you can guess every twist from miles away. Just how many times the intergalactic cops had bad Jet Li cornered ? And how many times you knew what will be the result ? "The One" is incredibly cheesy and annoying . The scene when Jet Li explains how he met his wife is one of the most pretentious scenes I have ever seen . The humor is incredibly cheap ("I will show you how to kill him") . The drama feels fake . There is no real plot and the characters just are . The double ending is laughable and sets a way for possible sequel (NOOOOOOOO!) I don't even want to waste time at some of the stupidity here . Why does Jason Statham talks to another version of Delroy Lindo about how much he respects him ? It's isn't HIS Lindo so why waste time ?! The good Jet Li without any training is EQUAL to the bad Jet Li who gained power from killing 123 victims (or something like that ). How ?! How does bad Jet Li know where the good one lives ? Why the multiverse government at the end sends the bad Jet Li to another planet instead of just killing him ?! Aren't they afraid that he will escape ?! Instead the were very eager to kill the good Jet Li who helped defeat him ?! I have to admit that the fights look really nice and they are photographed in a way that allows you to clearly see what is going on (something you can't always say about modern action movie with quick cut montage). Too bad that's the only good thing in the movie.I give it 1/10.
joecoolbrad The good: The effects of going between universes are kind of cool The bad: Action that fails to excite, weak acting, poor script, Quite simple: It's been done before, and done better.I like to say this to people: Just because a movie is full of action and special effects and uses the plot as glue to hold it together, doesn't mean it sucks. As long as I don't care about the plot, the film works.There are films that work with action and plot together to create a masterpiece: The Matrix, for example. There are films that center on plot and characters to create a compelling piece of entertainment. There are films that center on action, and forget about creating a great plot to create a roller-coaster ride to thrill the viewer, for example, Transformers. There are films that just flop on all counts. This is one of those films.The action is boring, the superhuman "One" is clearly taken from THE Matrix, The parallel universe idea is kind of cool, but this is just made boring by the "chase" mentality. The special effects are just lame, so the only thing to save it would be the characters. The characters could be said to be bland, but it goes beyond bland. It's flat out pathetic how dumb and lame this film is in its characters.Bottom Line: STAY AWAY!