Thursday, November 11, 2010
The One is a 2001 action film directed by James Wong and starring Jet Li, Delroy Lindo, Jason Statham and Carla Gugino.
A superhuman criminal named Yu-Law, once a member of the organization policing interdimensional travel (via detecting wormhole openings, which can be predicted like the weather), seeks to hunt down and kill variations of himself in alternate universes to absorb a common life force that connects them all. By killing his other selves, (becoming the last version of himself) and absorbing their power, he thinks he will become a god. Yu-Law is briefly captured by MVA agents Rodecker (Delroy Lindo) and Evan Funsch (Jason Statham), only for Yu-Law to escape from captivity during his sentencing thanks to outside help (Carla Gugino)
The only one who can stop him is the last of his alternate selves (MVC: MultiVerse Counterpart), Gabriel Law, who works in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department who was unaware of the multiverse. In the attempt to kill Law, Yu-Law starts a fight where he is hiding in an airshaft. After shooting where they believed he was hiding, the Sheriff's Department attempts to move in, but Yu-Law bursts through the metal and takes out numerous officers single-handedly. He then has to flee on foot when more troops move in. He is seen running down the streets from the police. In the end, Law was the only one who could keep up with him, not to mention barely jumping a tall concrete fence. Law then sees Yu-Law who is identical to him in appearance. Yu-Law shoots Law, but is interrupted by Rodecker and Funsch.
Law is situated in a hospital for an MRI scan. Yu-Law infiltrates the hospital to assassinate Law, only to get interrupted by the M.V.A. agents. Rodecker and Funsch split up, with Funsch explaining the Multiverse to Law, explaining that if only one version of Yu-Law is left there will be catastrophic results for the entire multiverse. Meanwhile Rodecker briefly holds Yu-Law at gunpoint only to be killed in a hand-to-hand fight. Yu-Law infiltrates Law's house and murders Law's wife, T. K. (Carla Gugino) and frames him for the murder. The film climaxes after an epic battle between Gabriel and Yu-Law. After Law's victory, Law, Yu-Law, and Funsch get transported back to the Alpha Universe. Yu-Law is transported to a prison colony universe (where he was to be sent in the beginning of the film) after attempting to switch places with Law. The MVA then prepares to send Gabriel back to his own universe where he will be arrested and put in prison, but Agent Funsch against orders from his superiors, instead sends him to a utopia-like universe where Los Angeles is hailed as "America's Cleanest City" and he ends up in the same situation where he met his wife in his home universe. Meanwhile, Yu-Law ends up in the Stygian Penal Colony, a prison planet in the Hades Universe, and immediately begins fighting all the inmates.
A superhuman criminal named Yu-Law, once a member of the organization policing interdimensional travel (via detecting wormhole openings, which can be predicted like the weather), seeks to hunt down and kill variations of himself in alternate universes to absorb a common life force that connects them all. By killing his other selves, (becoming the last version of himself) and absorbing their power, he thinks he will become a god. Yu-Law is briefly captured by MVA agents Rodecker (Delroy Lindo) and Evan Funsch (Jason Statham), only for Yu-Law to escape from captivity during his sentencing thanks to outside help (Carla Gugino)
The only one who can stop him is the last of his alternate selves (MVC: MultiVerse Counterpart), Gabriel Law, who works in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department who was unaware of the multiverse. In the attempt to kill Law, Yu-Law starts a fight where he is hiding in an airshaft. After shooting where they believed he was hiding, the Sheriff's Department attempts to move in, but Yu-Law bursts through the metal and takes out numerous officers single-handedly. He then has to flee on foot when more troops move in. He is seen running down the streets from the police. In the end, Law was the only one who could keep up with him, not to mention barely jumping a tall concrete fence. Law then sees Yu-Law who is identical to him in appearance. Yu-Law shoots Law, but is interrupted by Rodecker and Funsch.
Law is situated in a hospital for an MRI scan. Yu-Law infiltrates the hospital to assassinate Law, only to get interrupted by the M.V.A. agents. Rodecker and Funsch split up, with Funsch explaining the Multiverse to Law, explaining that if only one version of Yu-Law is left there will be catastrophic results for the entire multiverse. Meanwhile Rodecker briefly holds Yu-Law at gunpoint only to be killed in a hand-to-hand fight. Yu-Law infiltrates Law's house and murders Law's wife, T. K. (Carla Gugino) and frames him for the murder. The film climaxes after an epic battle between Gabriel and Yu-Law. After Law's victory, Law, Yu-Law, and Funsch get transported back to the Alpha Universe. Yu-Law is transported to a prison colony universe (where he was to be sent in the beginning of the film) after attempting to switch places with Law. The MVA then prepares to send Gabriel back to his own universe where he will be arrested and put in prison, but Agent Funsch against orders from his superiors, instead sends him to a utopia-like universe where Los Angeles is hailed as "America's Cleanest City" and he ends up in the same situation where he met his wife in his home universe. Meanwhile, Yu-Law ends up in the Stygian Penal Colony, a prison planet in the Hades Universe, and immediately begins fighting all the inmates.
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