| A PRETTY GOOD JET MOVIE (245 views) | AUTHOR /
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| The One is really an entertaining movie. Jet gets to do something different. He also said the concept was interesting to him. | Cinema!
9/24/2008 6:51 PM |
| #2 | An interesting concept on paper, but I felt the execution was really lacking. Many of the CGI shots just looked bad to me (swinging the motorcycles, for example), and some of the actions scenes seemed so sped up, it made Sammo's undercranking in the late 70's look slow. If it wasn't for the movie he made with DMX, this would be my least favorite Jet Li flick. | TheDenizen
9/25/2008 9:41 AM |
| #3 | It sucked. | JJ129
9/25/2008 11:04 AM |
| #4 | It's not a great movie but I did find it enjoyable. I think a lot of people expected *better than Matrix* but it really does have a plot of it's own. I believe this was Jet's second American movie after Romeo Must Die. I can't really include LW4 as he didn't get to do much and spoke no English at all during that dreadful movie. It really pissed me off when Gibson and Glover are in the alleged bad guy's office and they start making racist, hateful comments - I guess to get him to talk. Jet is standing over in the corner and I kept saying "Please, oh please have him go nuts and kill both of them with one strike!" No such luck. I have to rate The One higher than Romeo Must Die and Cradle To The Grave, but then that isn't saying much. Still though The One is a pretty good movie | Cinema!
9/27/2008 12:49 AM |
| #5 |
Has anyone seen the B-R version? | Cinema!
2/17/2009 4:45 AM |
| #6 | While I generally dislike sped up action scenes, they are better justified in "The One" than in most films, due to the central concept of the film. The special effects were not as good as I wanted them to be, but I found them forgivable - most of the time. As director Glen Morgan has admitted, the spark effects in the final duel are not slow enough to achieve the superspeed effect intended. | Jeffrey Frawley
2/20/2009 12:44 PM |
| #7 | ...sorry - WRITER Glen Morgan. | Jeffrey Frawley
2/20/2009 12:48 PM |
| #8 | I recently re-watched this film and have to agree with TheDenizen's assessment that there were some conceptually interesting things in the film, but that the execution was overall a failure. Some food for thought in the storyline, but they dropped the ball in several ways. I'd like to see another writer take a more intelligent stab at this story, with or without martial arts in it. | Choco
2/20/2009 1:04 PM |
| #9 | I think JJ129 kind of hit the nail on the head.
Until "The One," I was buying every Jet Li film I could get my hands on. This film cured me of that.
| PGW
2/21/2009 8:38 AM |
| #10 | Wow, PGW, you made it a long way before your cure! :) | Choco
2/21/2009 10:11 AM |
