Everyone is crying about how terrible this movie was and it had bad reviews. Personally, I thought this movie was kickass considering Jet Li did his famous Tai Chi. Also, the part when he pwns all of those cops was freaking Legendary.
shareI liked it a lot. I was surprised that it was reviewed so badly. However, I'm no expert on the genre. I suppose there have been a lot of other movies before it that were better. Personally I liked the concept, the music, the fighting styles, the flow of the story, and most of the acting. But I guess I'll have to check out Hero which the critics loved. I suppose the target audience/genre followers had more expectations.
I just watched it again today because I couldn't believe how bad it was reviewed, while the juvenile, badly directed mess Forbidden Kingdom has gotten respectable reviews. Of course I had more expectations for Forbidden Kingdom (I kept wishing it were in Chinese and that they ditched the American storyline). Still, I enjoyed The One when I watched it today.
I started the one not expecting much and i ended up really really liking it, im considering it as one of my favorite movies. Sure it was over the top and some scenes were a little ridiculous, but it still kicked ass in the end.
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I thought it was okay, but there's nothing amazing about it. A good way to pass the time.
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I take back what i said about considering it as a favorite, i didn't like it nearly as much the second time i watched it because i knew about all the effects and everything before hand.
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I was one of the many people who were expecting a kick-ass movie and thought it was good at the age of fourteen years old. I was just fourteen when it came out, so I really wasn't able to have a good judgment when it came to reviewing movies. At the age of 20 as of now (going on 21 soon.), I thought to myself, what the hell happened?
Story structure: Things just felt messy. We were just dumped in on the story when Yulaw was killing his second-to-last victim, and much of the background story is only thrown away in character-spoken dialog in a one-and-a-half hour movie. I would have liked it more if it showed more of Yulaw systematically killing the 122 other victims while Gabe Law and the M.V.A. try to stop him (with Gabe narrowly escaping death). That would have been a better movie than what we've seen
Acting/logic of story: I don't blame the actors, but I blame more on the people that wrote the crappy ass script.
Seriously, Gabe's lines when it came to encountering Yulaw for the first time made him sound like an idiot. "It was me! I think I'm schizophrenic!" Well, newsflash Gabe, Yulaw did say "You're not crazy."
Then fastforward to the hospital, "I wouldn't live if it weren't for you guys jumping over that wall." Gabe, if you've been working with your fellow S.W.A.T. buddies for years, you'd know that your squadmates aren't capable of jumping up fifty-foot walls as well as you can, not to mention I don't think you'd recognize one British guy and one black guy donning black leather gear from the L.A.P.D.
Then there's also the major cop-out ending. For starters, how the hell did Funsch know when to send Gabe to that "my dog was in a car accident" scenario? Then there's Yulaw fighting a Zergling rush of prisoners until credits rolled in.
Broken system =/= Gameplay.
Can't play games with a broke system.
XBox 360's rep
What bothered me the most about this movie is all of the garbage music.
There are a lot of things I can overlook in movies, but fred-durst-wannabe-metal-rap-garbage is NOT one of them.
In fact, it's almost embarrassing
What's more embarassing is that you think Drowning Pool, Papa Roach, Linkin Park, Godsmack and Disturbed, a) sounds anything like anything Fred Durst has done, and b) is nu metal.
shareUmmmm. Papa Roach, Linkin Park, and Disturbed are pretty much considered nu-metal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu_metal
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"Yulaw fighting a Zergling rush of prisoners until credits rolled in."
What saved that whole part for me was the "I am nobody's bitch, you are mine... I don't need to know you."
I thought that was freaking funny the first time I heard it, just because it's Jet Li saying it.
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All I can remember now is the agony of holding on and the wonderful feeling of letting go.
I thought that last line was hilarious too!
I thought the suggestion that he would spend the rest of his life fighting off ravenous fellow prisoners was a good way to resolve that side of the story...
Agreed. Almost choked on my squash when he said that.
Y'know lead lined fridges are so durable they can withstand thermo nuclear explosions!?!
I like this movie and yeah it was over the top and some cool fight scenes
DarkAlessa now the end of day and Iam the Reaper:silent hill
Why were you eating squash in a movie theater?
I'm gonna eat your brains and gain your knowledge
Twas sitting in my lounge watching it on telly eating a very tasty curry.
I'm not watching the Olympics. Apparently my crooked teeth are not 'angelic' enough
I think its an underrated movie especially since it opened as the same day as the incredibles so of course it got a bad opening weekend and word of mouth on this film was slow. If you go in expecting a masterpiece you will be dissapointed. If you go in thinking it will be like a sci-fi bruce lee film well...now thats more like it. The point is that although it didn't have much of a story it had some cool fight scenes and the visuals were well done for the time to. The story although simple fits. They both become vicious killers if they are not whole. The idea of finding someones soul mate (center) and that can change them from being one unstoppable fighting force into a caring man...although unreasonable...fit for me.
shareLots of disappointing stuff in the movie, but I really liked the Yulaw ending. I thought the whole dark and gloomy prison universe scene with him fighting an endless horde of prisoners on top of a pyramid was pretty badass. Maybe he beats them all, maybe he dies, or maybe he becomes the king of the prisoners...
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What the HELL is wrong with you people? This is one of the worst cinematic 87 minutes I think I've ever seen, actually I couldn't even finish it. I was getting too much second-hand embarrassment from the cheesy jock-rock music, unrealistic plot, confused writing, stiff one-liner acting, bad accents, sloppy (non-existent?) directing, and the ridiculous costumes/sets/props (like dude seriously..the mouse with a bomb shoved up it's ass that comes out of the chicks secret "mouse-compartment" in her high heels??). I think the only reason I watched as much as I did was for the comedic shock value. Like a bad car accident that's horrible, but you still have to look.
If you like this movie you are:
A) 14 years of age or under.
B) http://corrente.blogspot.com/morans.gif
C) http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e5/Skorp88/WordToYour/WTYJeepBrah.jp g
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This movie was kick ass not only was ther a sci fi element but it had kung fu and jet li.
Well I can tell you I don't fall under a, b, or c and I love this movie so much. It does what it was supposed to. It's not a cinematic masterpiece and I hate when people treat every movie like it should have been. It sounds like you just were expecting too much or expecting something else entirely. Oh and I have to laugh at "unrealistic plot" LOL! I won't even say anything, just think about that for a minute.
For people that are into interesting stories, and fans of martial arts/Jet Li, cool special effects, and some unique action scenes (whens the last time you saw someone get sandwiched by motorcycles...by hand), it does the trick.
Yes there's a few holes, yes the acting is a bit stiff throughout. I'm not exactly sure what you mean about "ridiculous" costumes. The things you listed were extremely trivial (for the most part) and shouldn't matter in this type of movie. The premise and action (which is what would draw someone into this film after hearing what it's about AND that JET LI is in it) is enough.
I stopped reading your post when you said you haven't even finished watching the movie you critique.
shareI liked it. Its soundtrack was awasome.
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good movie! im a multyvoise agent. there's jet li and then there's jason statham with a hillarious accent. this movie has it all!
and of course the ending where literally hundreds of people make their way to the pyramid for some multyvoise fighting.
More like anyone like the reference in 30 Rock a few weeks ago...
JACK "You love Angie right?"
TRACY "Of course I do, Angie's the One."
JACK "Where did you hear that?"
TRACY "It's a thing I made up after seeing the Matrix."
I laughed until I cried, and then to remind myself of how funny it was I rushed onto imdb to reassure myself that the One was nothing but a crappy Matrix after thought...
I loved this movie so much that I can say one thing I hated about this movie: TOO SHORT. I wish it was longer. The musical score was great. The action was amazing, and yes even the actors were good. Wow but too short!
"I got to get me one of these!"
While I was re-watching today, I found myself wishing that the movie was 10-15 mins longer.
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