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Release Date:
2 November 2001 (USA)
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Tagline:
What if there was a killer traveling through parallel worlds...and he looked just like you? [taken from the trailer] more
Plot:
A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills. full summary | add synopsis
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4 nominations
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Brilliant idea, but very poorly executed and wasted script potential.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jet Li | ... | Gabe Law / Gabriel Yulaw / Lawless | |
| Carla Gugino | ... | T.K. Law / Massie Walsh | |
| Delroy Lindo | ... | MVA Agent Harry Roedecker / Gas Station Attendant | |
| Jason Statham | ... | MVA Agent Evan Funsch | |
| James Morrison | ... | LAPD Officer Bobby Aldrich / 'A' World Inmate #1 | |
| Dylan Bruno | ... | Yates | |
| Richard Steinmetz | ... | D'Antoni | |
| Steve Rankin | ... | MVA Supervisor | |
| Tucker Smallwood | ... | Prison Warden | |
| Harriet Sansom Harris | ... | Nurse Besson | |
| David Keats | ... | MRI Technician | |
| Dean Norris | ... | Sgt. Siegel | |
| Ron Zimmerman | ... | Rotten Ronnie | |
| Darin Morgan | ... | Hugo | |
| Mark Borchardt | ... | Cesar |
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Also Known As:
Jet Li's The One (UK)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for intense action violence and some language.
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Runtime:
87 min | Germany:85 min (cut version)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Germany:16 (cut version) |
USA:PG-13 (certificate #38092) |
Iceland:14 |
Iceland:16 (video rating) |
Malaysia:18SG |
South Korea:12 |
Philippines:PG-13 |
UK:15 |
Canada:14A |
Finland:K-15 |
France:U |
Germany:18 |
Hungary:14 |
Netherlands:12 |
Norway:15 |
Peru:14 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
Singapore:PG |
Australia:M
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Revealing mistakes: In the first chase where the police of the Anubis Universe are chasing Yulaw, the first car goes under the partly raised garage door and hits its lights on it. The siren dies and the light and siren get broken off. When the car drives on, however, the top is sparking but the lights and siren are intact.
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Narrator: There is not one universe. There are many: A multiverse. We have the technology to travel between universes, but travel is highly restricted and policed. There is not one you. There are many. Each of us exists in present time, in parallel universes. There was balance in the system, but now a force exists who seeks to destroy the balance so he can become The One.
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Narrator: There is not one universe. There are many: A multiverse. We have the technology to travel between universes, but travel is highly restricted and policed. There is not one you. There are many. Each of us exists in present time, in parallel universes. There was balance in the system, but now a force exists who seeks to destroy the balance so he can become The One.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)
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Soundtrack:
Train Of Dreams
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I didn't want to write this movie off on the reviews and critics in the western world, I mean how wrong have they been about Asian cinema that has now become a staple diet of the Hollywood remake monster? Plus Jet L is pretty damn cool, and he's made some interesting movies in Asia. So with an open mind I was surprisingly averaged out by this movie.
There are good points. The story is very clever, using M-Theory as a base to bring forward the plot that there are multiple universes each with their own versions of worlds, and most likely you. Each time one of you is destroyed the rest share the energy and power amongst them. The idea that someone might try and purposely become the only version of themselves in all the Universes to find out if they become a God.
There's also Jet Li, and he's not a bad actor and pretty nimble as a martial artist, plus Jason Statham who is an all round good actor. As for the special effects, some of them are really cool, a mixing of bullet time, and slow motion with normal speed, very cool to watch in places.
The bad points? Well Statham's accent is appalling, and some of the effects aren't as comparable as others, so it's quite apparent that money was spent on some of the main shots and not on others that were probably deemed as too short on screen or they just plain ran out of budget.
A big sore point for me is the close cropped camera action that Hollywood has long favoured, something that Jackie Chan has often talked about. Filming fight scenes close up serves two purpose. It gives greater emphasis on a single punch or movement, making it look harder and more real than it really is, and it also hides what is going on around the camera lens. For example people holding a fake arm or the face of a stunt double, etc.
What Chan always said was that he tried to open out the camera and show the audience what was going on, let them see the people fighting properly rather than a close up of a face and a fist, cutting to someone falling into frame. Showing the whole picture is more effective, and it's more impressive.
So the close cropped shots were just more annoying than anything, you failed to see the impressiveness of Li's fighting skills, and you found it hard to see some of the action. Slow the cuts down and pan out the camera Hollywood Directors! The biggest problem was the story though, despite having such a strong base on which to build, they seemed to loose the sense of the plot and concentrate on the action scenes. There are some serious plot building and explanatory moments that are just totally overlooked and covered in the space of a few sentences, yet these could have formed some excellent and complex character development.
It just all held together too weakly, and not enough was made of the story. All in all, not a great movie and it's potential was badly spoiled.