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Movie Overview
Cast
• Jet Li
• Carla Gugino
• Delroy Lindo
Director
• James Wong
MPAA Rating
PG-13 - intense action violence and some language
The One (2001)

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OFCS Rating: 15% Rotten
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1.5/4
"Jet Li may be an original, but little in "The One" is."  Lawrence Journal-World  Dan Lybarger

.5/4
"The One is one vacuous hole of a movie."  DustinPutman.com  Dustin Putman

2/4
"Li speaks and acts entirely too much here."  Slant Magazine  Ed Gonzalez

C
"Too serious about itself and its silly concept, and it offers nothing beyond the fight sequences we've seen before."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

D
"An utterly negligible martial-arts flick--cheap-looking, clumsily written, and not even very well staged, fight-wise."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

1.5/4
"Bad action, worse drama, and excruciating science fiction."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

1.5/4
"Eighty minutes of dreck for seven snappy minutes of Jet Li going mano-a-mano with himself? I want more."  Palo Alto Weekly  Jeanne Aufmuth

2/4
"Li kicks a good amount of ass in the film, but he’s certainly no Oscar contender."  MovieMartyr.com  Jeremy Heilman

"A disappointing and less than involving affair that feels like nothing more than a rock 'em, sock 'em video game."  Screen It!  Jim Judy

6/10
"This flick packs a whallop, lasts little more than 85 minutes and doesn't pretend to be about anything else but kicking a lot of ass!"  JoBlo's Movie Emporium  JoBlo

4/10
"Bullets fly, lights flash, action occurs, time goes by, but nothing actually happens."  DVDTown.com  John J. Puccio

2
"What little good that can be said about The One is easily summed up in this sentence: Jet Li fights himself."  Cinerina  Karina Montgomery

6/10
"una colección de huecos inexplicables en su guión."  Cinenganos  Luis Martinez

1.5/5
"Not a video game, but an incredible simulation of one trying to pass itself off as a movie."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

2/4
"Morgan and Wong lose sight of what makes Li such an appealing star in the first place: his natural athletic ability."  TheMovieReport.com  Michael Dequina

2/4
""The One" is an expensive-looking martial arts-science fiction movie that delivers a lot less than you would expect from it."  Laramie Movie Scope  Robert Roten

C+
"I got a kick out of the old-fashioned stunt work sprinkled with “Matrix” like action and wire-work a la “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.”"  Reeling Reviews  Robin Clifford

B-
""The One" is pure pulp junk and Wong embraces it as such, rushing through the mundane details of establishing characters and defining motivation to leap into action..."  Seattle Post-Intelligencer  Sean Axmaker

1/4
"The confused step-child of "Sliders" and Highlander."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw

2/4
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OFCS Rating: 15% Rotten
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