The One

The One (2001)

  • 14% of critics liked it
    (85 reviews)

  • 59% of users liked it
    (96,640 ratings)

Former X-Files writer James Wong makes his sophomore feature as a director at the helm of this science fiction thriller that's reminiscent of Timecop (1994). In the near future, a technology called "quantum tunneling" allows human beings to travel between parallel universes. The abuse… More

PG-13,
Directed By
Written By
James Wong, Glen Morgan
Genres
Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy
In Theaters
Nov 2, 2001 Wide
On DVD
Mar 5, 2002
Columbia Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Ed Park, Village Voice

    Wong's efficiently creepy Final Destination was as much memento mori as teen disposal unit, but in The One the maze of death leads only to exhaustion.

  • Jonathan Foreman, New York Post

    This sci-fi/martial arts hybrid has the stale aura of a product assembled out of bits of other action movies.

  • John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis

    Bullets fly, lights flash, action occurs, time goes by, but nothing actually happens.

  • Harry Guerin, RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

    Hasn't enough good dialogue here for one Yulaw, never mind two.

  • Brian Mckay, eFilmCritic.com

    A sci-fi kung-fu mish-mash of dreck . . . The use of stand-ins is obvious and the resolution is ludicrous.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Albert K


    Wow... absolutely horrible. Can't even describe how horrible it was. Do not watch this crapfest.

  • Alexander D


    As good as this looks, this movie is an awful, awful, AWFUL film. And I am NOT exaggerating. Very little action is good, and the dialogue actually SOUNDS like people reading off of a piece of paper.

  • Manu G


    Stealing the power of the universes one by one. An OK movie. More Jet Li action, not much different from his other roles. The movie was a little confusing to me but nevertheless nothing really appealed too much to me. The special effects didn't look so special and the acting… More

  • xGary X


    A former agent who policed the various different universes finds that killing the other versions of himself increases his own abilities and so sets out to murder them all and become a super being. On paper, this interesting alternate reality premise and the idea of two Jet Lis… More

  • Jon L


    Interesting idea. Sa it so long ago I can't rememeber how good it was though.

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