| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
Hits the ground running and never lets up.
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| 67 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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.
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| 50 |
New York Post
Overall, 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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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
It's called One, and the hemorrhaging begins with the so-called story, which doesn't quite add up to one.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
When one actor plays both hero and villain, the viewer knows that what is being shown is not an authentic dance.
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| 42 |
Entertainment Weekly
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.
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| 40 |
Austin Chronicle
A “thrill ride” movie with all the predictability, brevity, and industrial efficiency that cliché implies.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
There's nothing like a feature-length video game to make you feel you're being played.
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| 38 |
Boston Globe
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.
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| 38 |
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie offers brainless high-tech action without interesting dialogue, characters, motivation or texture.
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| 30 |
Los Angeles Times
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.
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| 30 |
The New York Times
So narratively garbled and its screenplay so underwritten that you have to strain to piece together the story.
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| 30 |
TV Guide
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.
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| 25 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
A stunt that fails.
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| 25 |
New York Daily News
An 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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| 25 |
Baltimore Sun
Staff (Not credited)
The One is all sound and fury, and nothing else.
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| 20 |
Village Voice
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."
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| 10 |
Washington Post
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.
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| 10 |
Washington Post
Whatever the title of the next installment, this movie is certainly One best forgotten.
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| 10 |
New Times (L.A.)
A film bereft of emotion, characters and words with more than two syllables.
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| 0 |
Variety
The combo of cheesy effects and martial arts choreographer Cory Yuen's unimaginative staging results in something that's martial artless.
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