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Title: The One (2001)
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| 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 | |
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David Keats | ... | MRI Technician |
| Dean Norris | ... | Sgt. Siegel | |
| Ron Zimmerman | ... | Rotten Ronnie | |
| Darin Morgan | ... | Hugo | |
| Mark Borchardt | ... | Cesar | |
There is not one universe, but there are many, which is a multiverse. Supposing you are just one person, there are many other versions of you in the other universes, there are ways to travel, but only a police agency, MVA, can travel only for police procedures. Gabriel Yulaw is a former MVA agent, who killed another version of himself in self-defense. It made the other versions of him stronger. When Yulaw found out about this, he became power-hungry killing the 122 other versions for two years. After killing Lawless and getting captured by his former partner Roedecker and a new MVA agent Funsch, Yulaw managed to escape the prison and is trying to kill his last target, Gabe Law who is a police officer. He is also at Yulaw's strength. Roedecker and Funsch now have to arrest Yulaw before he can kill Gabe. There is a possibility that the universe could die or make Yulaw invincible. After encountering Yulaw for the first time, Gabe thought that it was his split personality, but it wasn't. ... Written by Zero 88
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To be fair, "The One" isn't a direct ripoff of "Highlander" (something I've never considered worthy of ripping off to begin with). It's more like "Highlander" meets "Sliders," only not quite as awful as that sounds - but the team of James Wong and Glen Morgan just toss away any potential of its premise in favour of endless shoot-'em-ups (or kick-'em-ups, as it were) and unimpressive digital effects.
Jet Li is certainly better at playing twins than Jean-Claude Van Damme, but the movie's too rushed to take any advantage of its storyline (even with the end credits it comes in at less that 90 minutes); it also doesn't thrill as much as it should, and often doesn't really make much sense even on its own terms - "The One" officially becomes irredeemably stupid when the good Li dons an outfit like the one the bad Li is wearing, when it would have been safer (and more sensible) for him to continue wearing the white gown he had on before, what with the police and the multiverse police officers (Delroy Lindo and Jason Statham) after the one in said outfit.
It's nasty and brutish, and it's also stupid and dull (even unto the climax), but it is short. Messrs Wong and Morgan have still to make up for "Space: Above and Beyond."