The One (2001)
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 85
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 73
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.
Average Rating: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 20
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.
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Former X-Files writer James Wong makes his sophomore feature as a director at the helm of this science fiction thriller that's reminiscent of Timecop (1994). In the near future, a technology called "quantum tunneling" allows human beings to travel between parallel universes. The abuse of this ability by criminal elements has led to the formation of the Multi-Verse Authorities or "MVA," an agency of quantum traveling cops who apprehend violators of inter-dimensional laws. The MVA faces its
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Jet Li
Gabe/Yulaw/Lawless -
Carla Gugino
Massie, T.K., Walsh -
Delroy Lindo
Harry Roedecker/Attenda... -
Jason Statham
Funsch -
James Morrison
Aldrich/"A" World Inmat... -
Dylan Bruno
Yates -
Richard Steinmetz
D'Antoni -
Bill Dunnam
Penal Colony Inmate -
Ken Kerman
"A" World Inmate -
Peter McKernan Jr.
Helicopter Pilot -
Dean Norris
Sgt. Siegel -
Denney Pierce
ER Security Guard -
Tucker Smallwood
Prison Warde -
Boots Southerland
ER Security Guard -
B.T. Taylor
Male Orderly -
Clement Blake
Penal Colony Inmate -
Harriet Sansom Harris
Nurse Besson -
Mark Borchardt
Cesar -
Alan Purwin
Helicopter Pilot -
Kevin Indio Copeland
"A" World Inmate -
Edward James Gage
Factory Worker -
David Keats
MRI Technician -
Teddy Lane Jr.
"C" World Inmate -
Darin Morgan
Hugo -
Kimberly Patton
Dr. Hamilton -
Steve Rankin
MVA Supervisor -
Narinder Samra
Dr. Hackler -
Joel Stoffer
Dr. Franklin -
Thanh T. Tran
Sleeping Boy -
Marco Verdier
"C" World Inmate -
Archie Kao
Woo -
Ron Zimmerman
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Wong's efficiently creepy Final Destination was as much memento mori as teen disposal unit, but in The One the maze of death leads only to exhaustion.
Top CriticThis sci-fi/martial arts hybrid has the stale aura of a product assembled out of bits of other action movies.
Bullets fly, lights flash, action occurs, time goes by, but nothing actually happens.
Hasn't enough good dialogue here for one Yulaw, never mind two.
A sci-fi kung-fu mish-mash of dreck . . . The use of stand-ins is obvious and the resolution is ludicrous.
All I know is, if there are really multiple parallel universes, I pity all the versions of me that have to watch all the versions of this movie.
You should know you're in trouble when you steal ideas from Highlander.
una colección de huecos inexplicables en su guión.
Replicates the experience of viewing an arcade demo for the same length of time.
Morgan and Wong lose sight of what makes Li such an appealing star in the first place: his natural athletic ability.
The confused step-child of "Sliders" and Highlander.
Li kicks a good amount of ass in the film, but he's certainly no Oscar contender.
Instead of thrilling audiences, The One disappoints.
It's as if Wong and Morgan didn't think beyond the pitch session. It becomes painful to watch how quickly the duo squanders the story's potential.
Too serious about itself and its silly concept, and it offers nothing beyond the fight sequences we've seen before.
I like Jet, but...this particular "Version" of the idea deletes nearly all ripe tangents.
The cheapest and most nonsensical slice of quasi-Science Fiction silliness since Freejack.
"The One" is an expensive-looking martial arts-science fiction movie that delivers a lot less than you would expect from it.
What little good that can be said about The One is easily summed up in this sentence: Jet Li fights himself.
I'm happy to report that Jet Li's fourth American film crosses the finish line as far and away the best of them.
A disappointing marriage of science fiction and action, with too much sci-fi nonsense and not nearly enough action.
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