Blimey, since
when did rain turn yellow?
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The One has
a premise that seems initially promising, but as it goes on, it's
clearly just an excuse to play around with CGI.
Review by Neil Heath
The special effects, and Jet Li's kung fu tricks are without fault,
however his acting and the plot make 'The One', one to miss..
The Plot
Trying to describe what it's about is a tricky question, just what
is it about? I sat with someone who didn't have a clue all the way
through the film. So, I'll try and go through it with you.
At the beginning of the film, we are told there is not one universe,
but a multiverse. Therefore out there is a hundred or so different
incarnations of everyone.
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| This is
how I dance to the birdy song. |
However, there's
one chap that's causing a ruckus.
Yulaw (Li) travels through each universe, killing his parallel selves,
are you still with me?
By doing this he gets faster, stronger, and more intelligent, because
he soaks up their life force.
To be 'The one',
he must kill his last 'other', who is Gabriel Law (Li again).
Standing in his way is two universe police, Roedecker and Funsch
(Lindo and Statham), who have incredibly powerful weapons, but struggle
to hit anything throughout the film.
The Review
What starts off fairly promising, becomes rather dull. Even
Jet Li's kung fu tricks couldn't brighten this rather lifeless effort.
Jason Statham's elevation from Guy Ritchie gangster flicks to Hollywood
blockbusters is disappointing. For the role he's developed the most
appalling American accent.
He talks out of the side of his mouth, by which he seems to think
it will make him sound more American, but instead he comes off sounding
like Popeye.
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tries to perfect his bad American accent. |
Predictably,
there's also holes in the plot.
Hollywood assumes that the average cinema-goer doesn't have a brain,
well we do.
For example
in the film, in each parallel universe Jet Li's character has a
different name, but surely in equal universes you'd have the same
name?
Also in a multiverse, there'd be an infinite number of universes,
but in 'The One' there's only 124, why 124? There's simply no answers.
I'd be surprised if there's a person in the multiverse that will
get any sort of enjoyment out of this.
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