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One, The
EMAILPRINTColumbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Entertainment

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 21 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 33 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Glen Morgan
James Wong
Directed by: James Wong
Release Date:
Theatrical: November 2, 2001
DVD: March 5, 2002
Running Time: 87 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for intense action violence and some language
Starring Jet Li, Carla Gugino, Jason Statham, and Delroy Lindo
This supernatural action bonanza from director James Wong showcases martial arts expert Jet Li in a dual role as a police officer battling a sinister version of himself that has escaped from a parallel universe.
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What The Critics Said
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
It's more thrill ride than movie and Wong plays it that way: no sentiment, no complications and no pesky story to get in the way of an arsenal of flashy special effects.
Read Full Review >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
Overall, this sci-fi/martial arts hybrid has the stale aura of a product assembled out of bits of other action movies.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham
It's called One, and the hemorrhaging begins with the so-called story, which doesn't quite add up to one.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Charles Savage
When one actor plays both hero and villain, the viewer knows that what is being shown is not an authentic dance.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
It's hardly much of a thrill to see The One recycle, on a lower budget, the slo-mo bullet dodges from "The Matrix," along with unspectacular variations on several other of that film's time-bending demolition-ballet effects.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Russell Smith
A “thrill ride” movie with all the predictability, brevity, and industrial efficiency that cliché implies.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
There's nothing like a feature-length video game to make you feel you're being played.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
The problem in The One isn't the black holes in the universe, to which the characters refer at periodic intervals, but the black hole on the screen. The One is a zero.
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The movie offers brainless high-tech action without interesting dialogue, characters, motivation or texture.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Jan Stuart
Li's far too unthreatening a presence to cause much of a stir amid the din of hard rock music and the pall left by fight choreography that has had every last bit of life digitally drained away.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
So narratively garbled and its screenplay so underwritten that you have to strain to piece together the story.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Pseudo sci-fi gobbledygook aside, X-Files alumni James Wong and Glen Morgan's script is little more than an excuse for Jet Li to kick his own ass, which he does energetically and often.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
An almost comically unsuitable title. There's absolutely nothing singular or special about this slapdash sci-fi film featuring martial-arts megastar Jet Li.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Staff (Not credited)
The One is all sound and fury, and nothing else.
Village Voice Ed Park
In The One the maze of death leads only to exhaustion -- a solipsistic extension of Bruce Lee pacing the room of mirrors at the end of "Enter the Dragon."
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
The story is so ridiculous and the acting so completely amateurish, the fights have no dramatic impact; you don't care whether good Jet or bad Jet wins – not that you can tell them apart anyway.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
Whatever the title of the next installment, this movie is certainly One best forgotten.
Read Full Review >New Times (L.A.) Robert Wilonsky
A film bereft of emotion, characters and words with more than two syllables.
Read Full Review >Variety Robert Koehler
The combo of cheesy effects and martial arts choreographer Cory Yuen's unimaginative staging results in something that's martial artless.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.9 (out of 10) based on 33 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Ben M. gave it a3:
The music was like a Now That's What I Call Music! compilation for angst-laden suburban male youth. The plot was a superficial cover for the special effects barrage which were, as has been noted, bad imitations of The Matrix. It's blatant: even the title was a rip-off. Plot points were never fully fleshed out: the 'good' Jet Li is completely content with not going back to his home universe because this one has a version of his love interest who just got killed? His reaction is just a goofy grin? 'Bad' Jet Li is suddenly transported to a desolate version of the Shawshank Redemption? In short, I might have been able to excuse everything in this movie being a vehicle for the fight scenes, if they had bothered to make it a vehicle that ran.
Joseph S. gave it a10:
Jet li has really rocked in this movie,This is all time movie, action packed,sequence revealed and most importantly the sfx used in this movie were certainly great.
Josh B. gave it a10:
this is a great movie filled with hard hitting action the whole tine it will keep you thinking what will happen next
Akeem G. gave it a10:
The one is definitely one of the best movies that Jet Li has ever acted in.For starters I would like to say that this movie has nothing to do with the Matrix in fact The One is whole lot more better than any movie in the matrix series.My most favorite parts of the movie are the introduction and the ending because they had the most wicked fight scenes that I have ever seen in my life.I loved seeing the Cops getting their A$#ES kicked around in the beginning and then seeing prisoners get their tails kicked in the end.I am EXTREMELY glad that the creators didn't get the rock to star in this movie because The Rock's street fighting style isn't anywhere as cool as Jet Li's martial arts and he can't act as good as Jet either. I also annoyed the music that played for each fight scene because it really helped to bring the movie to life.The sound effects were also very nice, especially the lightning sounds that you hear in the final chapter in the movie when yu law got sent to the stygian penal colony.The last but not least thing about this movie was the purple lighting and other things that the creators used used in the introduction to separate the differences between the parallel universes.The concept of parallel universes has made a very interesting story and script. By the way the review that Taylor B. wrote me laugh a little.I'm just happy to see that there are other people that enjoyed the movie as much as i did, because most critics are A#$ES who wouldn't know a good movie or video game when they see one. I still watch this movie a couple times a week from time to time.
Warren E gave it a10:
Sheesh, where to start. Dude this movie rocked, It had action it had story and it had music, the martial arts was good, but I guess typical humans what they don't know they hate, he used like 3 forms of martial arts and the scenes were good, the graphics were good, and WHERE IN THE MATRIX DID YOU SEE BODIES GO SLOW MOTION, it was awesome they way the moved super slow and he Jet Li d their ass.
Frederick S. gave it a6:
Not a great martial arts movie but an interesting concept.
Tom M gave it a2:
Practically unwatchable. Not even worth wasting any more time relating how bad it is. As action film go, this one is a yawner.
