Three questions about film The One which people who haven't seen it will be able to answer two of

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The One is a Jet Li film written and directed by James Wong & Glen Morgan (Final Destination, X-files, Space: Above & Beyond). In it Jet Li plays a character who is travelling parallel universes killing himself "picking up their strengths" - leading to a final battle with good version of himself to be "The One".

a) How many films and stories does this sound derivative of?
b) The film end with the bad guy in prison ready to escape for another day. What should the sequel be called?
c) If you've seen it, what did you think? Me - I thought is was perfectly good fun but having it a martial arts film missed out some of the much more interesting identity issues which bubbled under the surface.

― Pete, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

HAVEN'T SEEN IT BUT THE TRAILER SUCKED - and i like chop socky - i blame it on THE MATRIX - all them krappy FX

― a-33, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

a) The trailer voiceover starts with "The Power Of One" = Pokemon 2000 tagline. Also bad self battling good self = Pokemong: The First Movie

― Graham, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Best Jet Li movie I've seen was Kiss Of The Dragon, if only for the first 10 minutes.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

a) *cough* Highlander
b) Obviously "The One Two"
c) Very disappointed by the dearth of cool ultra-fast ass-kicking that was featured in the ads. I would have loved an entire movie of Jet Li kicking people's asses while they're in slow motion and he's not - why'd they wreck it by focusing on a dumb sci-fi story?

― Vinnie, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

B) The One Point One Beta.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

On c) it does seem a bit bizarre making it a martial arts film when the good guy and the bad guy are going to be played by the same person - making decent plausible martial arts impossible to film without special effects. They did a pretty good job as it happens, but it did seem foolish.

― Pete, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dude, The One was terrible.

Well, it wasn't that bad, but my girlfriend didn't return the video for like two weeks and now I have fines that will make your head spin. So fuck The One.

― adam, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

a) TimeCop b) 2 Become 1

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

b) Yi Yi

Dan - Kiss Of The Dragon was unspeakably bad even allowing for the opening scene (and put me off seeing The One). Poor old Bridget. Has it come to this? etc.

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

b) Another One.

― Archel, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

b) It was quite short so how about A Quick One Two?

― Pete, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jeff: Are you CRAZY? The opening scene had hot iron-to-face action and death by billiard balls! Also, Bridget played a ho-with-moxie! How could you not love that movie?

B) The Other One.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The film totally sucked because the super-fast stuff took all the physical subtlety out of the fighting except at the very end fight. Also, there have been plenty of guy-vs-self martial arts films, and they're easy as long as you use a double in frame shot from the back for the sequences.

Also, they're won't be a sequal. I mean, it wasn't that good or popular a film.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

b) The Two

― David, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It reminds me most of top Avengers (comic book superhero team) supervillain Kang The Unconquerable or some such.

Sequel: A One And A Two.

I adore Jet Li, so I'm sure it's great. I expect I'll go see it.

― Martin Skidmore, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

b)What Women Want

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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