In my opinion,"The One" is simply a bad martial arts film.
Idiotic plot,100% wooden performances across the board,an irritating,obnoxious soundtrack,zero characterization and ESPECIALLY completely
embarrasing dialogue ("You came for me,now I come for you") make it a grueling experience.
The fighting is technically competent,but undermined by the great feeling of pointlessness that comes from the aforementioned points.
It looks good at times,but the lighting is poor most of the time.
The special effects HURT the martial arts,being rather cheesy and making Li
almost a liability at times.Less would
definitely have been more,in this case. My advice is to avoid it,unless you crave 80+ minutes of pure mindlessness. Rating:*1/2 out of ****
Crouching Tiger,Hidden Dragon,the best martial-arts film I've ever seen,gets **** "MOrtal KOmbat:Annihilation gets 1/2) |