The One Reviews
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Combustible Celluloid
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 martial-arts flick that transcends its genre with surprisingly strong sci-fi concepts.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"The One" is pure pulp junk and Wong embraces it as such, rushing through the mundane details of establishing characters and defining motivation to leap into action...
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| Original Score: B-
SPLICEDWire
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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| Original Score: 3/4
IFilm
The action is fun and ultraviolent, the story is satisfactorily ridiculous and the acting is nonexistent.
A blast of first-rate entertainment.
The 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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Reeling Reviews
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."
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| Original Score: C+
ComingSoon.net
The action scenes are amazing and the use of slow motion and other effects is pretty well utilized.
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
This flick packs a whallop, lasts little more than 85 minutes and doesn't pretend to be about anything else but kicking a lot of ass!
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| Original Score: 6/10
Movie Metropolis
Bullets fly, lights flash, action occurs, time goes by, but nothing actually happens.
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| Original Score: 4/10
RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)
Hasn't enough good dialogue here for one Yulaw, never mind two.
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| Original Score: 1/5
