The One (Special Edition)

Good movie

By far one of Jet Li's best movies and he's amazing like always. Highly recommend.

they work great together. great story

The movie has plenty of weak spots, notably the mostly lame humor and stiff acting of most (although I don't find that Li's acting was bad at all), but the idea behind it is solid as far as sci-fi goes. The selling point, of course, is the fighting. Unlike many movies you actually get to see something interesting: Jet Li uses Bagua Zhang, a form of "internal" martial arts from the mid-1800s. It involves very evasive and unusual movements and its trademark circle walking (which is what he's doing practicing at his home). The final fight scenes between the two Jet Li characters is where you can really see the good Jet Li putting it to use against the bad Jet Li, who is using an other rarely seen internal martial art style called Xingyi (spellings vary). Oh, the one liner delivered by the nurse (the actress who plays Frazier Crane's agent on the TV show Frazier)is a killer. I love everthing that actress does, she hits a better comedy note out of that one line than all the other attempts at humor in the movie combined. Finally, the attempts at touching moments aren't so bad (the ending outcome for the good Jet Li is a cute idea).

There is not one Universe. There are many. A Multiverse. We have the technology to travel between Universes. But travel is highly restricted and policed. There is not one you. There are many. Each of us exists the present time in Parallel Universe. There was balance in the system. But now a force exists who seek to destroy the balance... so that he can become.... The One.

Jet li is lighting fast in this movie.

This is a very good movie. As one would expect from any Corey Yuen film, the action is superbly choreographed. Jet Li is a personable star with amazing martial arts skills. The special effects were fantastic and the movie in general, was entertaining and a lot of fun.But there were holes in the movie, some of them too noticeable to ignore. For instance, if the current technology allows you to "forecast" WHEN a worm hole is going to materialize, why do the characters magically also have the power to change the end points of the worm hole? Why can they adjust the temporal aspect as well?There are other holes too. If "Gabe" and "T.K." are husband and wife, why does Jet Li treat her like a sister, especially in scenes where he should show more intimate attention for the woman who is his "center"? Why is it that in spite of all the special effects, Yulaw does things that are physically impossible, even for a person with the strength of 60 men? There seems to be a real inconsistency with the abilities of the characters. And the last why is why weren't there any deleted scenes on the dvd? Considering how many scenes are talked about in the director's commentary, why didn't they put any of them on the dvd?Yes, I'm glad that I have added this movie to my collection, I'm sure it's one that I'll see over and over again. It's fun and I recommend it to people. But I would love to see some of those deleted scenes...

I agree with all the bitching about the plot in this movie, it's a bad joke, and even a bit painful to listen to in places (though i really liked Jason Statham [Snatch, Transporter] in this movie). But the thing i really liked about this movie was the accuracy of the martial arts, i didn't notice it at first but the two Jet Li's use very different styles of martial arts, my Sifu even mentioned it. The 'Evil' Jet Li uses Hsing Yi, which is a very direct, blunt head-on style, which makes sense given the character. The 'Good' Jet-Li uses Ba Gua (or Pa Kua as i've heard it called) which is a very fluid, moving, evading art; which again makes sense given the character. This 'meta-plot' is an aspect that intrigued me, as did the relative accuracy (given movies) about their fighting styles.