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75Hits the ground running and never lets up.
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67It'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.
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50When one actor plays both hero and villain, the viewer knows that what is being shown is not an authentic dance.
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50Overall, this sci-fi/martial arts hybrid has the stale aura of a product assembled out of bits of other action movies.
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50It's called One, and the hemorrhaging begins with the so-called story, which doesn't quite add up to one.
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42It'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.
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40A “thrill ride” movie with all the predictability, brevity, and industrial efficiency that cliché implies.
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40There's nothing like a feature-length video game to make you feel you're being played.
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38The movie offers brainless high-tech action without interesting dialogue, characters, motivation or texture.
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38The 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.
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30Pseudo 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.
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30Li'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.
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30So narratively garbled and its screenplay so underwritten that you have to strain to piece together the story.
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25An almost comically unsuitable title. There's absolutely nothing singular or special about this slapdash sci-fi film featuring martial-arts megastar Jet Li.
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25A stunt that fails.
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The One is all sound and fury, and nothing else.
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20In 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."
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10The 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.
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10Whatever the title of the next installment, this movie is certainly One best forgotten.
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10A film bereft of emotion, characters and words with more than two syllables.
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0The combo of cheesy effects and martial arts choreographer Cory Yuen's unimaginative staging results in something that's martial artless.
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JosephS.10
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JoshB.10this is a great movie filled with hard hitting action the whole tine it will keep you thinking what will happen next
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AkeemG.10