Wong's efficiently creepy Final Destination was as much memento mori as teen disposal unit, but in The One the maze of death leads only to exhaustion.
The One
Stealing the power of the universes one by one.
2001 · 1h 27m · PG-13
Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
James Wong
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The One
Overview
A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills.
Director and cast
- James Wong Director
- Jet Li as Gabe Law / Gabriel Yulaw / Lawless
- Carla Gugino as T.K. Law / Massie Walsh
- Delroy Lindo as MVA Agent Harry Roedecker / Gas Station Attendant
- Jason Statham as MVA Agent Evan Funsch
- James Morrison as LAPD Officer Bobby Aldrich / 'A' World Inmate #1
- Dylan Bruno as Yates
- Richard Steinmetz as D'Antoni
- Steve Rankin as MVA Supervisor
- Tucker Smallwood as Prison Warden
- Harriet Sansom Harris as Nurse Besson
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
This sci-fi/martial arts hybrid has the stale aura of a product assembled out of bits of other action movies.
I guess you would call this a twin Jet movie. That doesn't quite take off.
A chaotic kung fu, sci-fi, rama-lama-dingdong on themes handled more originally by The Matrix.
Fans of The Matrix will hold their noses, as will those who put down sparring Arnold Schwarzeneggers in The 6th Day (now looking better).
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