Anyone else see "The One"? (possible spoiler)

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NO SPOILER IN THIS POST

Overall the movie was pretty good. No matter what, people are going to compare this with The Matrix, and they may have a point, but I will save that for GD. IMO it could have been better, I think the martial arts was more CGI than anything else, and with all the CGI they used, it could have been sweet, but :shrug: oh well.

The only think that I hated was the Jason Statham (or his character, YMMV). It’s like he could only talk from the side of the mouth (think Anthony ‘Tony’ Soprano Sr) only a way way overly done bad immitation. I’ve seen better acting from my cat.

That being said I guess I would have to give it a 6.25 out of 10.

Agree or disagree?

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My complaint was the inconsistency in Jet Li’s awesome powers. It takes him 6-8 minutes to beat one guy to death, and a minute later he’s hitting someone else over the head with a motorcycle. The first guy should have gone down on the first punch (except that he was a major character, so he gets a better death scene, whether it makes sense or no).

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Eh… I liked it, but pretty much in the same way I like “Raw Deal” or “Evil Dead.” It was a fun movie to take part in, so long as you didn’t think about it too much.

Probably not worth the theater charge, IMO.

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The movie was pretty good. I like how the fight choreography was done. It was interesting to see the evil Jet using a hard-style vs. the good jet using the soft-style.

Hey how about that Carla Gugino? Is she cute as hell or what?

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I think if you go in knowing it’s a kung-fu movie and expect the level of storyline and acting you typically see in a kung-fu movie (i.e., you’re not going in expecting something that’d win awards at Cannes), you can really enjoy the movie.

The fight choreography was really good, I thought the photography was well-done… overall a fun movie. Not what I’d call intellectually stimulating, but that’s not what I went to see the movie for. Fun flick.

And Maple, I thought the change in style (hard vs. soft) at the end was pretty neat also.

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Some issues:

  1. Can they or can’t they control when one of the black holes will open? At police headquarters the hole always opens in the room with the chair. But the other end is determined by nature (the everybody has to go to the location where it will open on its own); but in the end, the cop is able to drop Law in front of the vet clinic.

  2. Why were there only 124 Law’s? Are there only 124 universes? Does everybody only appear in 124 universes?

  3. How is the cop so familiar with the universes that he is able to select the perfect universe for Law at the end of the film. He picked a universe that was very similar to ours, yet was one in which Law and his wife had not yet met.

  4. Why doesn’t the multiverse police care that they have just released a super-powerful human into the multiverse with knowledge of them?

The movie really was pretty bad, improved only slightly by the always good Delroy Lindo.

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“Good, dumb fun.” This is a phrase I often use on action movies that I enjoy watching, but I know have no redeeming value. For instance: The Sixth Day. Or The One. It’s not a criticism - heck, I enjoyed 'em. But they’re not great art. Just very good eye candy. And I do like my eye candy. Anyway…

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*1) Can they or can’t they control when one of the black holes will open? At police headquarters the hole always opens in the room with the chair. But the other end is determined by nature (the everybody has to go to the location where it will open on its own); but in the end, the cop is able to drop Law in front of the vet clinic.
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My guess is all the equipment in “the transport room” somehow allows them to detect when a wormhole is about to appear (obviously) AND allows them to manipulate the endpoint of the wormhole - but they still can’t create one at their convenience. They have to wait for nature to bring one their way.

As for the other black holes in other dimensions, since it seems like they always return to the dimensional-cop’s universe, maybe they’re wormholes that originate at the transport room and whose other ends are “set” to specific universes so dimensional-cop agents can get around.

2) Why were there only 124 Law’s? Are there only 124 universes? Does everybody only appear in 124 universes?

Actually I think there are 126 (and only 126) universes. Remember, Yulaw is guilty of 124 counts of murdering himself. After that, the only Laws left are him and the one in our universe. So, a total of 126 Laws, and presumably 126 universes. (Though you have to wonder where the Law in the Hades/prison universe is. Maybe he’s already dead. He would certanly be an easy first target for Yulaw.)

3) How is the cop so familiar with the universes that he is able to select the perfect universe for Law at the end of the film. He picked a universe that was very similar to ours, yet was one in which Law and his wife had not yet met.

I have no idea. Maybe he gets special training as a part of being a dimensional cop. Maybe he (or someone else in the dimensional cops) went out of his way to research the one remaining Law’s past when they found out he was the last one YuLaw needed to kill to become “The One.”

4) Why doesn’t the multiverse police care that they have just released a super-powerful human into the multiverse with knowledge of them?

Because dem’s the rules of Dimensional Copdom, apparently. apparently. I guess they’re not worried because A) he’s obviously so cooperative with them and B) even if he does tell people, who the hell is going to believe him? Also, remember, they said in the movie that nobody really knows what happens when you kill the last of your parallel selves - it might destroy the universe you’re in. I suppose they could keep him captive, though they didn’t have too much luck with Yulaw. And they can’t kill him. Quite aside from it being grossly morally wrong, it would make Yulaw “The One” just like he wanted, and they also said in the movie that they think there might be a chance that when you kill the second-to-last copy of a person, it could “take [the universe it happens in] with it.”

The movie really was pretty bad, improved only slightly by the always good Delroy Lindo.

Yup, I agree. I’ve been enjoying Delroy Lindo’s performances ever since I first saw him in Romeo Must Die. I just wanna know, when is he gonna get a more major role? Seems like he always gets secondary parts.
-Ben

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Anyway, another answer to “how did they send him back into a very closely but not quite parallel universe at the end”: Maybe the control console shows universes very much like the ones you’re about to send someone to. All the cop did was scan those few very quickly, find a good one, and switch to it.
-Ben

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I don’t think they can control WHEN a black hole will open, but they are able to detect when they are about to and take advantage of it. Presumable yhe universe is big enough that black holes are constantly opening, allowing for several transits.

In some universes there were no Laws to begin with. Perhaps in some universes there were no Earths for him to be on. They don’t say exactly how many universes there were, but if the number isn’t infinite, then it’s possible most universes never had Laws. But I don’t get why they are all named Law.

He knew of a universe in which Law did not exist or had not met his wife (either because bad Law never went to kill that universe’s Law or because he had killed good Law before he met the wife). Then it’s a simple matter of finding the coordinates of the clinic.

Because they abided by a ethical code of laws and weren’t about to imprison an innocent man.