Movie Rental Review - The One - Jet Li

Movie Rental Review:

This week, we review The One - directed by James Wong.

There are many things that make up a good movie; action scenes, plot, plausibility, believability and maybe lack of plot holes. The only thing that made The One half decent was the fighting scenes which involved Jet Li beating up crap. Then there comes a point when you just run out of things to beat up so the directors probably thought "Hmmm...instead of Jet Li beating up walls and objects, Jet Li beating up good guys, Jet Li beating up bad guys, we'll have Jet Li beating up Jet Li (insert smiley face). And since we all know action movies involving no plot gets old easily: we’ll add lots of bullet time and slow motion, so that the 30 minute tv special will become a full length feature movie!" So instead of the normal sane reaction of "Wait...what?" producers actually gave the green light and today we have the movie known as 'The One'.
If leaps and bounds in plot hole techniques were to be congratulated upon, then 'The One' would definitely win and if there was one thing that could of saved this movie, it would have been making Jet Li unable to talk. Unfortunately, neither is true, and 'The One' is definitely not made out of 'win'. Okay, so the movie goes on somewhat like this: Jet Li being himself accidentally talked to another Jet Li from another universe, killing it and somehow absorbed that universe's Jet Li's energy (plot hole 9000), sending him down a spiral filled with the thirst for more power, unfortunately none of the universes had POWER THIRST (plot hole 9001) causing him to travel to other universes to kill more Jet Li's, until there is only one left, and since (still with us?). Oh crap. I’m sorry I spoilt the movie for you; I guess you can’t go and waste your money on it now.
One and a Half Betas (add one beta if you enjoy a movie with action and no plot). In case you’re not convinced, screaming into the paper as you read “This is BS, Jet Li does martial arts, it can’t be bad!” then I have prepared a rebuttal: “Jet Li spoke English...ENGLISH”

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