| Posted by: The1TrueFrog at November 11, 2002, 9:21 pm | | Topic: Reviews: The One Forum: JoBlo | | The One - 9/10. Nope, sorry. I'm going to have to disagree with pretty much everyone that reviewed this movie. I think it was absolutely kick ass! I'll give ya 5 good reasons. 1) It's opening scene told us all we needed to know. A narrator gives us an explanation of the parallel universes, how they are policed, how people gain strength from death... all that we needed (or cared) to know. Which means no 2+ hour movie spent explaining all the crap that we would ultimate decide makes no sense anyway. 2) It's short! That's right. The length of the film is under 90 minutes. After all, Jet Li should be a man of less talk and more action! 3) It's weird. There are ~125 universes with ~125 Jet Lis, ~125 wives of Jet Li, ~125 of each parrel universe police officer, ~125 of you, ~125 of me... crazy ain't it? And with all this energy out there, Jet Li seems to be the only one with all the power - shouldn't there be some other people who have bad luck genes somewhere in their family amounting to some characters worthy of battling this dude? Like I said, weird. 4) It's Action-packed. Come on folks, this isn't a shakespear remake or a documentary. THIS IS AN ACTION MOVIE. It should deliver with enough action to keep you entertained, and it even delivers the Matrix-style effects we've come to loathe in a good form! 5) A happy, comprehensive, and all-out fucked-up ending SPOILERS, DON'T READ THIS # IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT... The evil Jet Li goes to Hades to start whooping some other baddie ass, while good Jet Li gets to meet his late wife again in another parallel universe. Nice consequences for the good and bad, don't ya think? Summary - We have a very elaborate action movie with a thrashing soundtrack, Jet Li fighting Jet Li, parallel universe police getting massacred, and a bag of popcorn. What more could you ask for? |
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