The One (Special Edition)

Good movie

By far one of Jet Li's best movies and he's amazing like always. Highly recommend.

they work great together. great story

The movie has plenty of weak spots, notably the mostly lame humor and stiff acting of most (although I don't find that Li's acting was bad at all), but the idea behind it is solid as far as sci-fi goes. The selling point, of course, is the fighting. Unlike many movies you actually get to see something interesting: Jet Li uses Bagua Zhang, a form of "internal" martial arts from the mid-1800s. It involves very evasive and unusual movements and its trademark circle walking (which is what he's doing practicing at his home). The final fight scenes between the two Jet Li characters is where you can really see the good Jet Li putting it to use against the bad Jet Li, who is using an other rarely seen internal martial art style called Xingyi (spellings vary). Oh, the one liner delivered by the nurse (the actress who plays Frazier Crane's agent on the TV show Frazier)is a killer. I love everthing that actress does, she hits a better comedy note out of that one line than all the other attempts at humor in the movie combined. Finally, the attempts at touching moments aren't so bad (the ending outcome for the good Jet Li is a cute idea).

Jet li is lighting fast in this movie.

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 the present time in Parallel Universe. There was balance in the system. But now a force exists who seek to destroy the balance... so that he can become.... The One.

Another Jet Li action packed movie! Jason Statham plays a solid supporting role!

I agree with all the bitching about the plot in this movie, it's a bad joke, and even a bit painful to listen to in places (though i really liked Jason Statham [Snatch, Transporter] in this movie). But the thing i really liked about this movie was the accuracy of the martial arts, i didn't notice it at first but the two Jet Li's use very different styles of martial arts, my Sifu even mentioned it. The 'Evil' Jet Li uses Hsing Yi, which is a very direct, blunt head-on style, which makes sense given the character. The 'Good' Jet-Li uses Ba Gua (or Pa Kua as i've heard it called) which is a very fluid, moving, evading art; which again makes sense given the character. This 'meta-plot' is an aspect that intrigued me, as did the relative accuracy (given movies) about their fighting styles.