In the first five minutes of this film, we are treated to Basil Exposition explaining the plot if the movie. As soon as he utters the word 'multiverse', you know you can just switch off for ninety minutes and enjoy Li once again choosing a dodgy script to showcase his skills to Hollywood.And he did this in favour of The Matrix Reloaded?Basically Li plays several characters and there is one who goes around all the universes and killing his other self, thus making him stronger. But he also makes the surviving Laws get stronger too, and we are down to one, and you know he's going to be problematic because it's the Li character who is all shy and confused looking.It's not a brilliant film by any means, and as time has passed, the years have not been kind to this movie. Apart from one scene at the beginning when Li is beating up people in slow motion, the effects are blooming awful.My personal favourite is when Law is supposedly running at 50 miles an hour, and in order to depict this, the makers just have Li running as normal, and cars driving at a snail pace.Statham is okay as his sort if sidekick, but he should have laid off the awful accent, which he does now.All in all, it's not a very good film, but its a good idea, and Li is as watchable as always...

*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS This little stinker rips off many movies : „ Matrix " , "Highlander" and even Van Damme's "Timecop". The lack of originality wouldn't hurt so much , if the movie was enjoyable . It isn't . It's a big budget B-movie . Crap fest from beginning to end.Director James Wong is mostly known for "Final destination" . That movie also had ridiculous idea behind the whole plot , yet it was quite enjoyable. Mostly because it had some twists all along the way and characters you could relate to."The One" doesn't have anything . The story is predictable from the beginning to the end , unless you have IQ lower than Forrest Gump . The characters aren't written at all . They lack depth and it's sad to see how actors struggle to give them some illusion of humanity.Compared to the movies I've mentioned in the beginning "The One" sucks terribly . "Matrix" basically pioneered the whole "bullet time" effect . "The One" rips off the "bullet time" so badly I almost died laughing. "Matrix" had substance and interesting universe . Don't look for that in "The One"."Highlander" had heart and affecting love story , not to mention great rock songs by Queen . Here the love story is dreadfully generic , the movie has no heart and the soundtrack contains awful modern rock songs."Tmecop" had many small twists that made it an enjoyable popcorn movie. Here you can guess every twist from miles away. Just how many times the intergalactic cops had bad Jet Li cornered ? And how many times you knew what will be the result ? "The One" is incredibly cheesy and annoying . The scene when Jet Li explains how he met his wife is one of the most pretentious scenes I have ever seen . The humor is incredibly cheap ("I will show you how to kill him") . The drama feels fake . There is no real plot and the characters just are . The double ending is laughable and sets a way for possible sequel (NOOOOOOOO!) I don't even want to waste time at some of the stupidity here . Why does Jason Statham talks to another version of Delroy Lindo about how much he respects him ? It's isn't HIS Lindo so why waste time ?! The good Jet Li without any training is EQUAL to the bad Jet Li who gained power from killing 123 victims (or something like that ). How ?! How does bad Jet Li know where the good one lives ? Why the multiverse government at the end sends the bad Jet Li to another planet instead of just killing him ?! Aren't they afraid that he will escape ?! Instead the were very eager to kill the good Jet Li who helped defeat him ?! I have to admit that the fights look really nice and they are photographed in a way that allows you to clearly see what is going on (something you can't always say about modern action movie with quick cut montage). Too bad that's the only good thing in the movie.I give it 1/10.

This zippy little action pic doesn't do anything exceptional, but it is fast and fun with a number of entertaining fight sequences. And I always like Jet Li. The premise is also pretty cool, although I think any scientist would say that it makes utterly no sense.Not making sense is actually a bit of a theme in this movie. It moves so fast that I really didn't have time to be bothered by much of that, but certainly the holes are easy to spot.For me the most annoying thing was that the authorities were off on the number of victims of the main bad guy, probably by several hundred people, because they ignore all collateral damage. It's just weird that no one making the movie thought that through.All the same, I enjoyed it.

The good: The effects of going between universes are kind of cool The bad: Action that fails to excite, weak acting, poor script, Quite simple: It's been done before, and done better.I like to say this to people: Just because a movie is full of action and special effects and uses the plot as glue to hold it together, doesn't mean it sucks. As long as I don't care about the plot, the film works.There are films that work with action and plot together to create a masterpiece: The Matrix, for example. There are films that center on plot and characters to create a compelling piece of entertainment. There are films that center on action, and forget about creating a great plot to create a roller-coaster ride to thrill the viewer, for example, Transformers. There are films that just flop on all counts. This is one of those films.The action is boring, the superhuman "One" is clearly taken from THE Matrix, The parallel universe idea is kind of cool, but this is just made boring by the "chase" mentality. The special effects are just lame, so the only thing to save it would be the characters. The characters could be said to be bland, but it goes beyond bland. It's flat out pathetic how dumb and lame this film is in its characters.Bottom Line: STAY AWAY!