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The One (Special Edition)

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Could have been outstanding.
Review: The story was simple: there are 125 parallel universes, and every person has a counterpart in each one. When someone dies, their speed, strength, and intelligence are divided among the remaining counterparts. In some of these universes, they have discovered how to dimension jump through the use of wormholes. Evil Jet Li has used dimension jumping to see out and kill 123 of his counterparts, giving him superhuman abilities, and has come to our earth to take out the last one and achieve god-status.

The only reason I gave this movie two stars was the opening action scene in the prison garage. Evil Jet Li physically overcomes five police that are shooting at him in the neatest display of slow motion 'Matrix' effects I've ever seen. I'm almost tempted to buy the DVD just for that scene. Also, I think Jet Li's acting is getting better. I think he's more skilled at acting than Van Damme or Seagal ever were and you can see the improvements between each film. Still, I wouldn't have him do Shakespeare.

With those two positive aspects noted, I'll turn to the negatives. First, and most importantly, the whole premise needed some serious doctoring. If the death of each parallel universe counterpart strengthened the remaining persons, retirement homes around the world would be loaded with superfast, superstrong grandmothers and grandfathers. It would have taken the director minimal effort to insert a scene showing the villian use some device that spreads the victim's energy to the survivors. Or, one added sentence from Delroy Lindo's partner to Good Jet Li could have explained, "He has to kill you near an open wormhole or else your energy just disperses". Instead, a gaping plot hole is left.

The film was only an hour and 20 or 25 minutes. They could have padded it out with scenes of the Good Jet Li adapting to his newfound speed and strength, both before he meets his evil counterpart and afterwards. That would have made the story much more interesting, provided a stronger attachment to the main characters, and giving more of a buildup and resolution.

Finally, Delroy Lindo and his partner spend half the film trying to apprehend the villian with futuristic guns they aren't permitted to use. Why weren't they given tasers or dart guns? Several times they unsuccessfully attempt to handcuff at gunpoint a villian they know can dodge bullets. Instead, they could have shot him in the back with a drugged dart and cuffed him while he slept. With his enhanced abilities, he could have overcome the drug quickly and escaped. Same net result, but more believable story.

My advice is, rent it only if you're a Jet Li nut who likes Matrix-style scenes. Otherwise, don't waste your money. Instead, I recommend "Kiss of the Dragon", which was only marginally better plot-wise, but contained many superb action scenes. However, KotD used very few wires and slow motion scenes.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Highlander meets Matrix
Review: Jet LI plays a cop(Gabe) being hunted down by another Jet LI(Yulow).Its a parrallel universe were each universe has its own Jet Li.Yulow is jumping from one universe to another killing all the Jet li's and in the mean time gaining strenth(there were 125 parallel universes with jet li in them counting Gabe and Yulow.Yulow has already killed 123 of them and now it leaves only one other,Gabe.
The movie reminded me alot of the Highlander series,you know the whole there can be only one.LI's character even uses the phrase "There can be only one".
The reason i give this film four stars is simple,the battle between the good Li and the bad Li near the end is great,the specal effects were pretty darn good and the very last scene was really cool.The soundtrack included Drowning Pool and Disturbed.Check this "ONE" OUT

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Just stating the obvious
Review: In my honest opinion, this movie was the best film I've seen to date. First, the plot was excellent - (to those who have the intelligence to understand it). Second, this film flowed together pretty good, with the exception of the editing of the script to cater to those who wouldn't understand that it wouldn't just be 123 Laws (Jet Li's character) it would be almost a infinite amount of Laws and universes. Every time you make a yes/no or any descision would create a parallel universe. Just like for every action there is a reaction, every descision or choice has to be played out in both directions. Balance.
Last, the making of The One was very cool, they made the super fast punches and kicks look so realistic.

I hope they make another film of this genre!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: AWESOME
Review: i haven't bought the DVD, but idid see the movie the day it came out. it had awesome action scenes and an even better plot!!! i rate it four stars because it copied the matrix a little. BUT<<< Doesn't every new action movie copy the matrix in a way? They always say " Best action stunts since the matrix" ANYWAY this is a good movie and if ur a fan of the matrix or if not, you should buy it. i am

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: The One
Review: The One was indeed a good movie but not great as many said it would be! The One's story lacked the most... I was hoping for thise film to have a good story especially since it has to do with time traveling through different dimensions. Another lacking point in the movie was that they used a little to much string for the action sequences, actually they used strings in every action scene. those were actually the only parts that brought the movie down, but other than that it is a good movie, lots of action ...If your a die hard jet li fan buy this movie for your collection, if your not i recommend you rent it first and decide yourself if it#s worth buying or not!!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Dumb
Review: Skip this one. I mean, there's some alright action in it... but compared to Jet Li's other stuff, it leaves a lot to be desired.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Action
Review: I am a big fan of Jet Li and i have to say this is the best action movie so far.
I can not understand why everybody is comparing All new films and " THE ONE " to THE MATRIX.
Enough is enough.........The Matrix was good in it's day's but now all new films will have the same SFX and style of bullet time.

As for THE ONE JET LI is fantastic ( much better than KISS OF THE DRAGON ) his moves are outstanding also his acting has improved.Bottom line this movie is awesome.Good story ( if you are into parallel universes ) i for 1 had a good ride in watching a film totally diffrent to other types of action films.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A great movie
Review: I must say that this movie was a lot better than I expected it to be...although the plotline has similarities to "Sliders", "Matrix", "Romeo Must Die" and "Highlander".

When there is more than 1 version of a character in a movie I normally think of Jean-Claude Van Damme. This was a nice surprise, Jet Li is such a great martial arts expert that it was amazing to watch the fight scenes...especially when he fights himself.

Imagine that there is one version of everyone in each parallel universe. Here we find an elusive criminal (Li) jumping from one parallel univerise to the next looking to kill one person...himself. At the movie's start, Jet Li's bad-ass character has jumped to one particular universe where he has just killed the 2nd last version of himself. He is caught by 2 multiverse cops who have been hunting him for 2 years. He is set to be transfered to a penal colony when he escapes to the last parallel universe in an attempt to kill his last double. Since there are only 2 versions left of him, both versions are equally smarter, fast and strong. The only thing is no-one really knows what will happen if there is only 1 version of him left...

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: tight!
Review: The story is quite simple, there is actually more than one universe, there are like 124. "We" have the ability to travel to each one through use of quantum tunneling and traveling through wormholes, although it is illegal. In each different universe there is a different version of you. A former agent who helped secure the wormholes was forced to defend a form of himself in another universe, and failed to do so. After the death of his alter universal counterpart (...) he found that he grew stronger and faster and from there he started to move on, hopping to different universes, killing "himself". Now hes reached the last one, our universe, and Gabe Law (the protagonist) must defend against himself, Yulaw (the antagonist) in order to keep him from becoming the One. If Yulaw does become the One, there are 3 possibilities. The whole system implodes, the whole system explodes, or Yulaw becomes a god.
This movie is definetely Jet li's best american movie ...It features some awesome bullet time sequences but what makes them so special in The One is that they are used with hand to hand combat aswell as shooting. The way the one uses the bullet time is, in my opinion, a lot cooler than in the Matrix. Another good thing is that they use it a lot.
The acting in the movie is quite good, considering Jet Li cannot fluently speak English. Some of the stuff can be hard to understand from time to time.
The One is a great action film and has action sequences on par or maybe even cooler then the Matrix's. I would definetely check this one out.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: My thoughts on the movie THE ONE!
Review: I recommend the movie THE ONE for anyone older than 9 because there is a lot of violence and bad language but the graphics in the movie are really cool. It is not in the theaters anymore but you can buy it. I liked it very much and I hope you do too.


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