If popcorn-picture auteur John Carpenter made martial arts flicks, they'd be just like "The One" -- an unabashedly cheesy, B-grade sci-fi amusement park ride.
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11/02/01
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The One (2001)
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Reviews Counted:83
Fresh:11
Rotten:72
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: The One plays out more like a video game than a movie and borrows freely from other, better sci-fi actioners like the The Matrix. Also, Jet Li's martial arts abilities are buried under the editing and special effects.
Theatrical Release:Nov 2, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $43,905,746
Synopsis: THE ONE is based on the futuristic premise that there is more than one universe: there are many parallel universes, each of which contain a slightly different version of every person who has ever... [More]
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A joyless affair -- neck-snapping violence, endless blather trying to explain the 'science' behind what is happening and guns, guns and more guns.
11/01/01
The action is fun and ultraviolent, the story is satisfactorily ridiculous and the acting is nonexistent.
11/01/01
A blast of first-rate entertainment.
11/01/01
For a while, it seemed Jet Li could be the next Mel Gibson, but instead, he's becoming the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.
11/01/01
When one actor plays both hero and villain, the viewer knows that what is being shown is not an authentic dance.
11/01/01
Confusing plot holes, cut-out characters and cretinous dialogue undercut the visual feast.
11/01/01
Fans of Li's Hong Kong films may just be embarrassed; how can you mount a defense for an actor this bad in two roles?
11/01/01
Top CriticA dim-witted, dim-watted martial-arts actioner.
11/01/01
Top CriticDelivers a fun hyper-action romp.
11/01/01
Bad action, worse drama, and excruciating science fiction.
11/01/01
Top CriticWe watch good Jet battle evil Jet ... and the difference between the characters boils down to... blank and slightly less blank.
11/01/01
Top CriticThe pace and inventiveness -- the epilogue is surprisingly touching -- and the eye-popping moves of Jet Li make it easy to hang on and enjoy the ride.
11/01/01
Top CriticNow here's something you don't see everyday: a movie title that matches the number of stars most critics are going to give to it.
10/31/01
Jet Li may be an original, but little in "The One" is.
10/31/01
Eighty minutes of dreck for seven snappy minutes of Jet Li going mano-a-mano with himself? I want more.
10/31/01
I got a kick out of the old-fashioned stunt work sprinkled with “Matrix” like action and wire-work a la “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.”
10/31/01
An utterly negligible martial-arts flick--cheap-looking, clumsily written, and not even very well staged, fight-wise.
10/31/01
While the general public may not expect much from a Jet Li film, you might think a movie created by Glen Morgan and James Wong (X-Files and Final Destination) would be a little less lame.
10/30/01
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