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Information
- Year
- 2001
- Runtime
- 87 min.
- Director
- James Wong
- Genres
- Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Rating *
- 5.9
- Votes *
- 70,000
- Checks
- 3,689
- Favs
- 72
- Dislikes
- 126
- Favs/checks
- 2.0% (1:51)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:2
Top comments
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Emiam
5/10
Thought it would be better with Li, Lindo, Statham, but a little b-like shimmer lies over the production. 3 years 5 months ago -
Siskoid
At the crossroads between The Matrix and Timecop is The One, an American Jet Li vehicle that I am hard-wired to like. A parallel worlds story. A famous Chinese action star (and correspondingly, some Hong Kong flair). Jason Statham. Carla Gugino (who I fell in love with way back in Quantum Leap). There's even an amusing cameo for Mark Borchardt from the documentary American Movie. I actually wish the plot had been more ambitious. Not that we don't catch glimpses of various parallel worlds, with a lot of background world-building, but I had several ideas for the ending that were better than the playbook version we got. Maybe they hoped to do something in a sequel that never came (I would have called it The Two). Alas. For what it is, it's a fun, high-concept sf/action flick, where martial artists have super-powers (in the traditional sense rather than wuxia type stuff), and good, dog-loving Jet Li fights evil, dog-kicking Jet Li. And that's pretty well realized, give or take a couple of rubbery early-2000s CG shots. I do have a problem with the soundtrack though. It's noisy and obnoxious, and misses an opportunity to change with the worlds visited. Sorry NuMetal fans! I hated it! 4 years 8 months ago -
