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The One (2001) -- A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills.
The One (2001) -- A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills.
The One (2001) -- A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills.
The One (2001) -- A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills.
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Glen Morgan (written by) &
James Wong (written by)
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Release Date:
2 November 2001 (USA) more
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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 more
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Good Fights, OK Acting, OK Storyline, and cheesy Visuals. more (290 total)

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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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Jet Li's The One (UK)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for intense action violence and some language.
Runtime:
87 min | Germany:85 min (cut version)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Trivia:
The scenes involving Jet Li fighting himself were shot using Li and a stuntman with a build similar to his. The stuntman's face was painted green so that it could be digitally replaced with Li's face later. more
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Continuity: Near the beginning, when they are reading the charges against Yulaw, they say 123 charges of unauthorized transport. At this point he's only killed 123 people, and the first was on an official assignment. It should only have been 122 charges. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
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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Referenced in The Year of the Rat (2003) (V) more
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Papercut more

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10 out of 17 people found the following comment useful.
Good Fights, OK Acting, OK Storyline, and cheesy Visuals., 17 January 2005
6/10
Author: scooterscoots from Calgary, Alberta

This is a movie definitely worth renting, but not worth buying unless its the Special Edition DVD or its VHS for under 10 bucks. Th fights were sweet,although looked slightly cheesy. it looked like they tried to achieve the matrix type effects but didn't have a good enough budget. The Acting was OK. They stuck some good actors in with some bad ones so that kinda screws up the whole feel for the movie. The storyline is quite simple and somewhat intriguing. There are many universes, you look quite similar in everyone and your all connected by a wave of energy. every time one of you dies, the energy of that you that died goes to the remaining yous. One man has killed all of himself but one. Th movie basically starts here. Yulaw is about to get banished forever but stops his universe travel and goes to the last universe left, ours. Lately Gabe law has been getting stronger but he doesn't know why.

Whenever they go from one universe to the next, they break up into little puzzle pieces and they didn't do a very good job for the visuals on those.

My rating a 3/5 Stars

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