The One (DVD)

...nothing better to do on the evening he sat down to watch it, I joined him on the sofa, and I have to say I’m mighty glad I did. **The Plot:** The setting is ‘The Multiverse’ – a series of parallel universes. From one, a man has escaped and is hunting down ‘himself’. Sounds odd, and it is. The idea of a multiverse has been covered many times within sci-fi, but to my knowledge never before in quite this way. The idea here is that there is a finite ...
...jumping from one universe to the next killing that universe’s version of himself. Each time he kills he, and all the other versions of him which still exist get stronger and more powerful as the amount of energy has to be split between less and less versions of him. The story begins by letting us know that this is what has been happening and that the multiverse police are after this individual and are tracking him. It also lets us know that there ...

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Having recently joined the excellent www.dvdsontap.com, who charge a monthly fee rather than a set charge per rental, I have recently watched some DVD’s that I wouldn’t have forked out £3.50 to see but that sufficiently intrigued me to seem worth renting. Occasionally this approach can lead to discovering some remarkable films that, due to the whim of a studio or the fickle nature of cinema going public, may have slipped quietly from a deserved limelight. ...
...and the indifferent reviews and unblindingly average takings are merely a reflection of a film that fails to live up to its hype or promise. The One seems to have combined the TV Sliders with Highlander for its laughable premise and has tried to imitate the genre-defining Matrix in several of the action set pieces, the results are decidedly average. Where The Matrix slowly reveals its alternative reality, generating intrigue and suspense, The One ...

Mercury 14.11.2002 (15.11.2002) · Read full review
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...INTRODUCTION ---------------- Released in 2001, THE ONE is a short (84 minutes) action movie starring Jet Li. ---------------- THE PLOT ---------------- Rather than a single universe, there is a multiverse, which is many parallel universes existing side by side. Gabe Law (played by Jet Li) is a criminal who has discovered that by moving from one universe to another and killing his parallel selves, he gains more power and in effect becomes superhuman. ...
...he will become 'The One'. The plots involves him trying to do just this, as he is chased and opposed by two agents (played by Delroy Lindo and Jason Statham) whose orders are to bring him back alive. ------------------- THE MAIN CAST ------------------- Jet Li has a great many fans due to his many appearances in various Chinese martial arts films. His most famous and successful Chinese work is in the ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA series, where he ...

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...over a hundred movies, with the majority of them being classical Hong Kong cinema titles. In my mind, there are only a handful of modern martial arts movies that can stand-up to the classical ones and a very small percentage of them are from Hollywood. 'The One' is a movie that comes nowhere near the good martial art movies! 'The One' stars Jet Li, Delroy Lindo, Carla Gugino and Jason Statham. Now Jet Li is well known in the martial arts world for ...
...as it doesn't play down the skillfull martial arts or acting abilities of the characters. Jet Li is a great martial artist and has played historical figures and legends in his Hong Kong movies by combining his deadly skill and excellent acting abilities. 'The One' is a movie that tries to combine martial arts with a bucket load of CGI. So, what is it about? The movie is set in the future and Jet Li plays a twin role in this movie as evil Yulaw ...

abdulawwal 18.12.2002 · Read full review
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'The One' really is the film to watch right now. Starring Jet Li, and Delroy Lindo, with superb direction by James Wong, this film pushes the boundaries in martial arts skills, Special FX, and science fiction all at once. There are many universes, collectively called the multiverse, and within each universe is another version of yourself, they look like you, sound like you, they are you, each of you shares the same essence, and if one of you dies, ...
...to prevent illegal travel between the universes, one day whilst policing the multiverse he unnavoidably has to kill another version of himself, from then on realising that he gets stronger everytime he kills another one of himself, he embarks on an insane journey to become 'The One' the only version of himself left in the multiverse, he can only do that by killing every other version of himself. Whilst being chased throughout the multiverse by his ...

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Movie: The One Year: 2001 Industry Rating: 15 Classification: Action / Sci-fi Starring: Jet Li, Delroy Lindo, Carla Gugino, Jason Statham, James Morrison, Dylan Bruno Director: James Wong Rating: 7/10 Special Features: Commentary by Director and Crew, Theatrical Trailer(s), Making-of Featurette, Animatic Comparison Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1) Subtitle: English, French, Chinese, Korean, Thai Number of Discs: 1 Running Time: 87 ...
...presence The huge Martial-Arts Action Star ‘Jet Li’, came kicking onto my screen last week when I rented out ‘The One’. Jet Li has played both the goodie and the baddie in films in the past (Romeo Must Die (2000), Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), Once Upon a Time in China and America (1997), Black Mask (1996), High Risk (1995), Fist of Legend (1994), The Last Hero in China (1993), and many, many more), and in this film plays the ...

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...fight sequences are by far the best that he has done since 'The Fist Legend' and they certainly make you forget and Jason Statham's awful attempt at sounding like an American. So what's 'The One' all about? ------------------------------ The film starts with the idea that there is not one universe but a multi-verse where each person is very different in each universe. With the advent of a multi-verse travelling machine a police department is ...
...self defence is now hunting the other hims, as killing one of them makes him stronger. Yes I know it sound a bit complicated but when you start watching it does make a creepy kind of sense. Anyway, Jason Statham and Delroy Lindo have to track down Yulaw before he kills the final other him, Gabe Law (also Jet Li). I can quite honestly say that 'The One' is quite a strange movie but the action sequences take over the strange storyline and you get ...

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The One- starring Jet Li is an action/fantasy film dealing with the idea of parallel universe. Though the film deals with a complex idea of multi universe, the plot is extremely thin. A man is trying to kill all of his other forms in different universe so that he becomes powerful and wants to see if that makes him the One- the lord. Following him is the police of the multi-verse, which also makes it an usual cop-criminal stories. He is only left ...
...to kill and become the one. The OTHER him is by tradition the good guy here and is trying to fight againt him. My friend had told me it is a great film and I should see it. I went into the film with sky high expectations and boy, was I disappointed! The film only didn’t have an extremely thin plot to play with, even its action sequences and dynamics seemed nothing out of the ordinary. Terming it as “outdated” is not appropriate seens its almost been ...

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...naturally intrigued when I saw the trailer for this film. The idea of putting Li in a double role seemed an interesting one and gives the opportunity for some eye-popping fights. However, a few flaws stop this film from becoming a classic, letting it slip comfortably into the “above average” group. The story is based around the theory that there is not one universe, but a multi-verse, which contains 125 universes all running in parallel ...
...energy is distributed equally among the remaining variations, making them stronger. This is presented vividly and originally in the film but sadly is not developed enough to make it an interesting sub-theme in the movie. Jet Li plays U Law, a murderer on a quest to kill all the variations of himself to make himself “the one” by illegally travelling through the multi-verse via wormholes. The film starts with the murder of victim 123 out ...

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The one is a really good film which puts all the latest techniques of special effects and combines it with Traditional martial arts. The film is about a ring of universes called a multi-verse. In each universe lives you slightly different from the one in another universe. People can travel from one universe to another through a worm hole but travel is highly restricted and is unknown by most. Jet li (the bad one) has traveled through all the universes ...
...to become the only Jet Li left in the multi-verse, THE ONE. The film is a great example of modern technology in the film industry, with computer graphics and animation used to show two jet li's fighting each other. The dvd has some exelent features like how they made it look like jet li was fighting himself mandhow they made it look like Jet li was super fast, super powerful and super clever. ...

Skaterboy88 09.03.2003 · Read full review
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...I was looking forward to the next directorial outing of James Wong, especially when I heard Jet Li was going to be in it. The Story seemed intriguing but a little familiar, a Trans dimensional Highlander or possibly Timecop 2. The action sequences in the trailer seemed pretty cool but when watching the film I had seen all the action in the 120 second trailer, and the story limps rather than bounds along. The story is of a dimension jumping bad ...
...time he kills one the rest get stronger and faster until there is any the “One” ( just like Highlander). After the 123rd kill he gets caught but a mysterious women helps him escape with an exploding mouse, now he is after his other self in our world. He is being tracked by two dimension hopping Agents (Timecop). The best effect was Jet Li in real time and the people he was fighting in slow motion, but even this is not enough to save this film. ...

niallwebster 16.09.2002 (18.09.2002) · Read full review
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personaly i think the film could be better it is categorised as a action film where as it appeals to me moree as a sci-fi film. the film is based in the future and there are anumber of worlds that are parallel to ours and we all have identical twins. one particular man with many action moves (jet li) decides to go through all the parellel worlds killing his twins trying to become the one hense the film name the one. will he succeed watch and find ...

noz_nh 16.12.2004 (28.01.2005) · Read full review
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