Basically,
The One involves a power mad
Jet Li going on a mission throughout multiple
universes to kill himself. For every instance
of himself that he kills, the other instances
become more powerful, in the style of The Highlander.
The One is set on Earth in what must
be our universe, where a good Jet Li is being
hunted by the bad (power mad = bad) Jet Li.
As the plot progresses, we find out that these
instances are the last two in the multiverse
and as soon as one of them is killed the other
will become
The One! Nobody actually
knows what happens when there is only one left
- some people think nothing will happen, some
that the universe will be destroyed. The bad
Jet Li basically believes that he will become
a god. As it is, the two Jet Li's are much stronger
and faster than normal people, and there are
great
Matrix style
scenes involving bullet time martial art (ish)
combat. There is also a pretty cool scene where
the bad Jet Li picks up a police motorbike in
each hand then smashes them together, with the
policeman in the middle! Unfortunately, some
of the scenes aren't very realistic. For instance,
the force of two motorbikes crushing a man in
between them would leave a bloody human pulp
afterwards, and not (as did happen) cause the
man to simply fall over.
To make matters more interesting, the bad Jet
Li is also being hunted by two multiverse policemen
- who wield not very scary looking silver guns,
complete with blue flashing light to prove they
are an advanced technology!
Minor spoilers below:
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The One ends with the bad Jet Li being
sent to a prison planet (in the Hades universe...).
Unfortunately, this means that nobody actually
becomes The One, and you leave the cinema feeling
slightly cheated. I think it would have been
a better idea to have titled the film The Two!
Then again, they've left it open for a potential
sequel (The One 2?).
So. Good points:
The One has great special
effects. Interesting multiverse idea, obviously
stolen from Sliders, although that, in turn
was stolen from Michael Moorcock and other science
fiction authors.
Bad points:
The One has quite a few flaws
- it turns out that the bad Jet Li has murdered
himself 123 times before he has to kill the
final Jet Li. This means that in a multiverse
of infinite possibilities there are only 125
Jet Li's. Ummm. Also, no blood and gore.
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End of Spoilers
Score: 2.5/5
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