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The One
Starring: Jet Li, Delroy Lindo, Carla Gugino and James Morrison. Directed by James Wong (Final Destination).
Screenwriter Glen Morgan describes the story as being “…about a man from a parallel universe who finds that, as he goes through other universes and kills (the other universe's equivalent of) himself, he becomes stronger. He's coming into our universe to kind of kill himself. Of course, the guy in our universe has no idea what's going on”.
Carla Gugino is the wife of Li as well as two alternate reality versions.
This sounds like a movie tailor made for kids that have an expertise at video games. It just might reach a mass audience that Final Fantasy tried to but did not in spite of the game lead in.
There are quite a few wire-assisted fights, which resulted in a slow five-month shoot and a very tedious postproduction process to merge the dueling Jet Li's together. Looks for lots of action and not a lot of dialogue.
PG-13: reasons not yet stated by MPAA
George O. Singleton © 2001 September 4, 2001
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