The film features diegetic and non-diegetic use of the music of Drowning Pool. Evil Jet Li picks up two police motorcycles and swings them around like clubs. Jason Statham is here as a “multiverse agent,” and he’s doing some sort of American accent. When we join the story, he’s already turned himself into a demigod, and the only thing that stands between him and full power is Good Jet Li (you can tell he is good because he loves to kiss his wife), who must quickly learn how to harness the superpowers he never asked for.Īllow me to tell you some more things about The One. Evil Jet Li has made a dark discovery: If he kills a Jet Li from another dimension, the life energy of all remaining Jet Lis is split between the survivors. Jet Li is dual cast as Good Jet Li, and Evil Jet Li.
There are exactly 124 universes, and a version of each person exists in all of them. It’s mind-blowing stuff, so The One sets some comforting parameters. Some other multiverse sci-fi stories encourage us to believe that our reality is one of infinite parallel realities. The film’s core conceit is that we live within a multiverse. But while embarrassing dreck like Equilibrium fumbled with existential questions, The One asked a much simpler question: What if Jet Li could jump twice as high? The answer is that it would be cool as hell.Īllow me to tell you some things about The One. The One is, ironically, one of many post- Matrix action romps full of visual effects that distort time and reality.
