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The One (2001)

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Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 84
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 72

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: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 18

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Movie Info

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

PG-13, 1 hr. 27 min.

Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Directed By: James Wong

Written By: James Wong, Glen Morgan

In Theaters: Nov 2, 2001 Wide

On DVD: Mar 5, 2002

Box Office:$43.9M

Columbia Pictures

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Cast

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
Rotten Ronnie

Critic Reviews for The One

All Critics (103) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (73) | DVD (32)

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.

November 6, 2001 Full Review Source: Village Voice

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Ed Park

Village Voice

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This sci-fi/martial arts hybrid has the stale aura of a product assembled out of bits of other action movies.

November 3, 2001 Comment

Jonathan Foreman

New York Post

Top Critic

I guess you would call this a twin Jet movie. That doesn't quite take off.

November 2, 2001 Comment

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Top Critic

...a cold, hard, antiseptic film bereft of heart or mind. It is, in essence, a waste of Li's martial arts talent as well as his acting ability. (Blu-ray Edition)

March 31, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Bullets fly, lights flash, action occurs, time goes by, but nothing actually happens.

March 31, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Hasn't enough good dialogue here for one Yulaw, never mind two.

May 22, 2003 Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

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Harry Guerin

RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

A sci-fi kung-fu mish-mash of dreck . . . The use of stand-ins is obvious and the resolution is ludicrous.

March 19, 2003 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Brian Mckay

eFilmCritic.com

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.

February 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Quips Online

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John R. McEwen

Film Quips Online

You should know you're in trouble when you steal ideas from Highlander.

August 22, 2002 Full Review | Comment

Jeffrey Westhoff

Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

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Wow... absolutely horrible. Can't even describe how horrible it was. Do not watch this crapfest.

September 8, 2011

Albert Kim

Super Reviewer

As good as this looks, this movie is an awful, awful, AWFUL film. And I am NOT exaggerating. Very little action is good, and the dialogue actually SOUNDS like people reading off of a piece of paper.

July 15, 2011

Alexander Diminiano

Super Reviewer

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