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November 5 2001
This week's victim is The One. It rates pretty low on the SH!T-O-METER, but it is not entirely without smell. As the comic indicates, this movie is a combination of a number of films including, but not limited to, Highlander and The Matrix. I pick these two films because The One relies heavily on a theme that runs throuhgout the Highlander series and treats us to Matrix calibur special effects (how else could Jet Li fight himself).
The premise is pretty standard affair for a B sci fi flick. It turns out that there is not just one universe, there are many, a sort of "multiverse" to coin a DC comics phrase. Yes, they use this term in the film. Sue wondered how the actors could say it without laughing. I concur. It's a stupid term.
Anyway, there seems to be one universe that has figured out how to traverse the dimensions. So they decide that it's their job to police trans-dimensional crossings. Now it's unclear if other dimensions have figured out how to do this, but there are universes who are and are not aware of cross dimension travel. And this is one of things that is never really addressed to my full satisfaction (remember, I am a movie snob who will pigeon hole just about anything. I actually really liked this movie).
As there are multiple universes, there are also multiple versions of you. And each multiple you is connected in some way. Jet Li plays a bunch of different characters, but the version of him who wants to be the "one" is Yu Law. Yu Law was one of these trans-dimension cops who had to defend himself against himself. Yu Law killed his double and somehow grew stronger and smarter. He figures out that by killing the other versions of himself until he is the last one, he will gain unimaginable power. Thus we get the Highlander feeling of this movie. In fact, the above comic is a direct quote from the film.
So there you have it. Yu Law has killed just about every one of himsleves except for Gabe Law who happens to be the only other one left. Gabe Law is the good guy with a good wife doing good deeds as a good cop. Yu Law and Gabe Law meet and hijinks ensue.
Okay, I really should rate this movie lower since it really does suck. It sucks a lot. It sucks so bad that I somehow really liked it. Maybe I liked it because I knew it would suck. Most sci-fi sucks these days anyway, especially chop socky sci-fi. Indeed, this movie was nothing more than live action Dragonball Z. The fights are so rediculous, it's like the choreographers watched the DBZ Tournament saga before they filmed. Nothing about the movie makes real sense. It contradicts itself in a number of ways and just plain sucks in others. The dialog really hurts. It's like the writers took every cliche and quotable from every bad action film and wrapped them all up into one stinking ball of monkey piss.
The fights were horribly unrealistic. But hey, this is a sci-fi chop socky flick so you have to expect to see some crap that doesn't make sense. For realistic fights, check out Kiss of the Dragon which Jet Li wrote. I wanted to see some outlandish stuff and I got what I came for. It's just too bad the rest of the package really blew. I am looking forward to the DVD so I can see how they made Jet Li fight himself. They did do the trick where they film over the shoulder for the first part of his last fight so you could only see the face of one of him at a time, but later in that fight you see both of them and it looks almost seemless.
Overall, I'd recomend this film to anyone that wanted to waste an hour and a half watching nothing but outlandish stuff. This is by no means a good film, but I would still recomend catching a matinee. Please don't pay full price. Force Jet Li to star in a better made film. Effects will only get you so far (exhibit A: Episode I: The Phantom Plot).
Next week, I have no idea. I want to try to catch Monsters Inc. cause it looks really funny, but we'll see how the week goes. Thanks for watching and I'll see ya in the theater!
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