The One Movie
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Stealing the power of the universes one by one.
What if you discovered the most dangerous man in the universe was you.
In order to save the universe, he will have to fight the fiercest enemy he has ever faced...himself.
This movie postulates what if there is more than one universe. And that all of these universes are held together by one single stream of energy and that energy is equally distributed to every living in each universe and if one of these beings die, that energy is reallocated equally to each other surviving member. And with each allocation, a person becomes stronger. Now one universe has master the ability of crossing into another universe, and a man named Shulaw who believes that if he can kill all of his counterparts, he will become invincible, but there are those who believe that it might have detrimental effects, so try and stop him. Unfortunately, he just has one more person to kill, Gabe Law, but the officers follow Shulaw but Shulaw has committed some crimes and Gabe is accused and is wanted. But Gabe discovers that he has changed and only wants to kill Shulaw not realizing what could happen.
| Jet Li | Gabe Law/Gabriel Yulaw/Lawless |
| Carla Gugino | T.K. Law/Massie Walsh |
| Delroy Lindo | MVA Agent Harry Roedecker/Gas Station Attendant |
| Jason Statham | MVA Agent Evan Funsch |
| James Morrison | LAPD Officer Bobby Aldrich/'A' World Inmate #1 |
| Dylan Bruno | Yates |
| Richard Steinmetz | D'Antoni |
| Steve Rankin | MVA Supervisor |
| Tucker Smallwood | Prison Warden |
| Harriet Sansom Harris | Nurse Besson |
| David Keats | MRI Technician |
| Dean Norris | Sgt. Siegel |
| Ron Zimmerman | Rotten Ronnie |
| Darin Morgan | Hugo |
| Mark Borchardt | Cesar |
| James Wong |
5.30 out of 10 (12228 votes)
Visitor Reviews
The one to miss
posted on 22 Aug 2009What do you do if you're discovering that you are chasing yourself? The cop Gabe suddenly faces himself, even a supernatural version. This is because he has killed himself in a lot of parallel universes and now is about to become the One; the strongest of himself. Confused? Don't worry; the story is one big gap of plot holes and the mindless so called action is "action for dummies". The problem is that if feels more like watching a computer game, but you can't interfere. Even if you're just watching it as an ordinary action film, it isn't even enjoyable.Even the fact that Jason Statham is in it, not even make it better. He is cool as always, but can't save this dreadful disaster! THE ONE is with no doubt one of the worst films I've ever seen.
A live action Saturday morning cartoon...
posted on 10 Aug 2009I'm a sucker for movies that deliver this essence of Saturday morning action shows, and the One did the trick, however it's not the most impressive visual experience and it does have some flaws, but overall it was fun. There is not one universe, there is a multi verse. And there must be a balance between them or we could go bye bye, too bad for us one agent, Gabriel Yulaw( Jet Li) trying to keep the balance has gone rogue and has begun killing his parallel selves in parallel universes, he has a pretty good track record of kills and with everyone he gets stronger, faster, and smarter. Obviously, he's become power hungry. After his last kill he brought to court and is to be executed, but luckily for him his sidekick( played by Carla Gugino) saves him with their mouse bomb. Yulaw escapes to one final universe, our universe. Where he's a cop named Gabe Law( Also Jet Li) but on his tail is his old partner( played by Delroy Lindo) and his new partner( played by Jason Statham). What's different't about Gabe is that he's more aware of Yulaw' presence and can even out match him unlike his other counterparts. But soon enough Yulaw is mistaken for Gabe, and Gabe is mistaken for Yulaw. I could say more but I think I've spoiled you enough...Anyway, let me say that this movie is all about one thing-the action. It's best evaluated that way and I will say that you won't be disappointed by it either. There are some pretty good fights including an awesome climax which doesn't fault it's gimmick-Jet Li Vs. Jet Li. It's strange to see Jet Li do a science fiction thriller for once, but I guess as you get older as an actor you have to try new things. I don't know if Jet handled it all too well, his speech during Yulaw's trail was a bit cheesy in his execution, but outside of that I think he handled being a bad guy and a hero at the same time. It's an interesting experiment and movies like Face/Off have shown us that. Everyone else is good, Carla Gugino is very carrying on her part, Delroy Lindo is both serious and sometimes shows believable remorse, a lot of people have a problem with Statham's accent but I say he did his job and his character was exactly was he sounded like. However I must fault the performance of Tucker Smallwood, no offense he's a great actor and everything but his execution made things a bit cheesy. Like I said earlier in this review, some of the visuals aren't the most biggest or the most stylized either but they shouldn't ruin the movie for you. James Wong did a good job making this action film, I just hope he delivers with Dragonball( which was one of the loves of my life as a kid...).6/10.
Asian version of Highlander
posted on 06 Aug 2009This movie epitomizes what I don't like about Jet Li movies. That being the special effects.The fight choreographers made excessive use of wires in this movie. It was to point that I thought I was watching a cartoon instead of a movie.The problem is that with all the special effects it becomes like watching the Matrix. Since impossible actions are normal you end up expecting them and being disappointed by the "mundane" martial arts sequences. Even when Jet Li is exhibiting phenomenal martial arts skills I felt like yawning and wondered why he wasn't doing it faster or 20 feet up in the air.The plot could have been good with a different point of view. It did start to resemble Highlander more than a little, especially when they meet in the steam plant and face each other. When the "bad" jet Li said that he would be "The One" I kept expecting Christopher Lambert to pop in and say "There can be only ONE!"All in all a disappointing movie. If you like martial arts action and amazing stunts that *aren't* due to special effects you'd be better off sticking to Jackie Chan movies.
Waste of time, money, and talent *spoiler. of what, I'm not sure*
posted on 25 Jul 2009Admittedly, I went in with high expectations, since it featured Jet Li and all. But boy did this movie suck.This is one of those films (like the Matrix) where the main star is a cool special effect. Unlike the Matrix, however, the cool special effect is all there is.If you are a fight fan, don't bother. There's only 1 fight.If you are a sci-fi fan, don't bother. There's 3 total scenes from more advanced universes.If you are a Jet Li fan, don't bother. The make-up job is atrocious so he looks 20 years older.How can I say this even a monkey could understand: FILM BADThis movie p*ssed me off so bad I went straight to Blockbusters after the film to try and rent something decent.*spoiler alert*Nowadays, it's pretty normal for a movie to have zero story. This movie has less than zero for a story. In one part, the good Li's 'friends' jump him without even asking his side of the story. Good Li then beats the crap out of them without even trying to explain. Then, they hunt him down just to set up a pretext where his wife can get killed. All of this just so that he can't return to his own universe, which sets up the happy-happy-joy-joy ending.Also, the underlying pretext of the story is dumb. If you get more powerful as each double dies, then the older you get the more powerful you get. The last one to die is the most powerful right? So the oldest fart is the strongest.The ending makes all of this even more ludicrous. Evil Li is sent to a prison planet, where he immediately picks a fight with the entire world. Of course, he should eventually tire, die, and Good Li will become the one anyway, which will cause all the universes to implode.Sigh. I should have just stayed home and drank beer.
a cool ridiculous video game flick
posted on 25 Jul 2009i agree with what the guy before me said. this movie is simply candy for the imagination, and nothing else. criticizing the other aspects ultimately misses the point. it's actually better than the matrix in my opinion because it doesn't take itself so seriously and is more of a pure, visceral experience. it's actually got some buddhist undertones for the keener few, which makes it even more authentic and enjoyable, because behind the glitzy and "stupid" fun lies something quite pertinent. this movie is a super fun portrayal of the ego (if you dig buddhism, kung fu and the whole superhuman bit). and jet's sense of humor plays along well with the absurdity of it all. otherwise like one kickass video game mind trip...
Don't set your expectations too high.
posted on 07 Jul 2009Unless you're a diehard Jet Li or martial art fan you can pass this movie. As movies go it's not that great, as a Jet Li movie it's not that great either. The only redeemable feature is Jet Li himself who is fun and exciting to watch no matter the quality of the movie in most cases, though there are notable exceptions. This is the kind of movie that will lure you in to see Jet, but isn't quite the viewing experience to make you want to see it again. An unfortunate trend in his recent western made films.I give it a 4/10. Watch it see Jet just for the sake of seeing him, but don't expect a good plot or really good fights scenes for that matter. If you want those characteristics then go see him in 'Fist of Legend'.
Get Down With Your Bad Self
posted on 01 Jul 2009It's a peculiar feature of life as an action hero that, every once in a while, you gotta kick your own keister. Many is the action movie that has its hero teaming up with or fighting against a carbon copy of himself, played by himself, and invariably leading to an extremely confusing climactic battle. It happens in all kinds of movies for all kinds of reasons, though it seems more likely to happen to you if you parlayed your martial-arts fame into a movie career. Jackie Chan did it in "Twin Dragons" and Jean-Claude Van Damme has played any number of twin brothers separated at birth, etc. (I forget exactly how many, as I tend to forget most things about Van Damme if I can help it). Even Christopher Reeve got down, dirty, and Jungian in a junkyard in "Superman III". The undisputed king of this sort of thing, however, is Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has played opposite himself at various times in "Total Recall", "The 6th Day" and "Last Action Hero". Schwarzenegger is the best at this particular game, since he tends to play it for laughs, cannily aware that the cosmic unlikelihood of there being two guys like Arnie in the same physical plane is inherently funny. "The One" is Jet Li's turn in the duality saddle, and as my sister pointed out when she saw the preview, this at least solves the problem of finding an actor capable of going a couple of rounds with Jet Li. Interestingly, the movie was apparently intended as a vehicle for wrestling star The Rock, but when he declined in favor of "The Scorpion King" it was offered to Li.The conceit behind this movie, as we are informed during the opening credits by the kind of stentorian narration usually found in shows like "In Search Of...", is that our universe actually consists of numerous parallel dimensions, some close to ours, some completely different and many unaware that this state of affairs even exists. The whole shebang is overseen by the Multi Verse Agency, a sort of cross between the FBI and the Interstate Commerce Commission, which regulates who can go between worlds and when. The problem arises when a rogue MVA agent (Li) discovers after he is forced to kill an alternate self in self-defense while on assignment (one wonders if his family sued him on behalf of himself), that he becomes much stronger. Y'see, each time you die in another dimension, your "power" is evenly distributed among the yous that remain, and in the end, there can be only - oh, you know. Anyway, Evil Jet begins to use his black-market dimension-jumper to hop around committing multiple suicide (as it were), in hopes that he will be the last Jet left, and in so doing, gain the power of a god. The MVA, concerned that this kind of dimensional paradox could destroy all reality as we know it (no one really knows; more on this in a minute) dispatches a pair of agents to stop him (you'd think in such an emergency they'd send more guys, but never mind) from killing his last self (Li, again). This unfortunate is an LA County Sheriff's deputy (in our reality, natch) who can't figure out why all of a sudden he is faster than a speeding bullet and all the rest of it.Now, here is where the thinness of the plot begins to intrude on the audience's placidity. It stands to reason, we think, that sooner or later, if there are numerous copies of you throughout the multiverse, there would always be one that was the last to die eventually, and this has been the case throughout history, so why WOULDN'T they know what happens? Also, if every time you die you get stronger (try to keep up with me here) people would get stronger and faster as they got older because more of themselves would have died in other universes, only they probably wouldn't die very often, since they were getting stronger like everybody else. The Olympics would be full of 80-year-old beneficiaries of bus accidents in distant universes. My head is starting to hurt. I guess if you merely accept at the outset that none of this makes any sense at all, you're better off.Jet Li is not a bad actor, but like many actors not native to English, he has a restricted range when acting in his adopted language. His best performance in an American movie was "Lethal Weapon 4", which he stole handily with a reptilian smile and a few subtitles. He is fairly convincing as Good Jet, an affable sort of guy who likes his job, loves his wife, and can't figure out what's going on (the audience can relate). As the cocky, wisecracking Evil Jet, he sounds stiff, with an affected sneer more than a genuine sense of a man comfortable in his own badness. The supporting cast of Good Jet's cop buddies and concerned wife (Carla Gugino) are serviceable but unremarkable. As the MVA agents tailing Evil Jet, Jason Statham and Delroy Lindo have some decent byplay, but they aren't Gibson and Glover by any stretch. And the movie never does explain where they get the muscle car they drive through a couple of different worlds (some kind of interdimensional rental agency? Imagine the return fees.)The movie has some style and imagination early on, having particular fun with the idea of parallel and slightly different universes. We see the same scene in a couple of different versions, with the same person occupying a different role, in one universe a cop, in another a prisoner (and I have to admire a movie that can differentiate between the LAPD and the Sheriff's Department). Gugino is in one universe a sweet veterinarian, in another a spike-heeled femme fatale. There is also a funny moment during Evil Jet's early sentencing, where we see a slide show of his 200-odd victims, played by Jet Li in a series of wigs in front of different blue-screen backgrounds. Unfortunately, the imaginative possibilities of parallel universes are ignored except for a few throwaway gags, in favor of showing Evil Jet using a pair of police motorcycles as maracas. Of course, since the whole thing doesn't make any sense in the first place, perhaps this is for the best.The stunts are impressive, of course, and we get some cool slow-mo effects of the super-fast Jet kicking the hell out of gangs of extras as they arc away like leaves in the wind. The inevitable final confrontation is a little underwhelming, and even though one of the Jets has the courtesy to wear a different shirt, it's difficult to tell exactly who is whipping whom at any given moment. Overall, the movie is so-so, interesting but sloppily constructed, though better than the aggressively lackluster "Kiss of the Dragon". Jet completists will go for it, as will moderately undemanding fans of sci-fi rear-kicking movies, but it doesn't achieve its potential.Still, if you see this movie, be sure to stay until the end to witness one of the most head-scratchingly superfluous credits of the year, as we are informed that "The One" was "Filmed on location in Los Angeles, CA." You don't say.
THE ONE WHAT?
posted on 15 Jun 2009This movie has absorbed a little too much "Matrix" and "Sliders".That's total mass confusion for one actor. Jet Li playing Gabe Law and there are many versions of himself in different universes who get killed by his derranged lookalike. Getting stronger by killing off his lookalikes is kinda wierd. But the action of the movie is anything but ordinary. Deflecting a bullet with a gun is a skillful feat for someone who gets enhanced from killing off the lookalikes.The one scene that really got my goat was when the police confronted the killer lookalike, he grabbed the two police motorcycles and clanged the police officer like they were cymbals. His entire body will be ringing with pain. And the final fight scene was confusion, it was hard to tell who was fight who. When the deputy saw the wedding ring band mark he knew it was Gabe Law. So luckily they grabbed the right man and put him in that Dangerous prison. He thinks he's "THE ONE". The one deadly inmate any prisoner has ever faced.
If you liked "Double Impact" or other twin related fighters, this movie is the "The One." 5 out of 10 2 out of 5 stars
Li's Evil Twin and the `Procedure'
posted on 22 Apr 2009Spoilers herein.There are two Jet Lis.One is a national hero in China where he has a dozen quite good films to his credit. In that world, even popular actors move props and the simplest gopher criticizes the players until they get it right. In that world, films are an outgrowth of a stylized stage tradition that emphasizes physical acting. In this tradition, Li is probably the chief dancer, perhaps the best there is. In this world, they use him for his physical grace and his way of expressing himself with his body.But he has an evil twin in a parallel universe called Hollywood. In this universe, films are something wholly different, a much gaudier spectacle in which fireworks and noise are the attraction. Actors are primarily marketing elements and are expected to act through dialog. In fact most actors in this world never learn to use their bodies at all. There is some physical motion, but that is arranged by digital magic and stunt standins.This film is a battle between the honest and evil Lis for the one body. What's interesting is watching the good Li try to bring something from the other world. He does try some esoteric, subtle shading in the fighting styles, stances and motions of the two versions of himself. The good Li uses motions from the Hong Kong era that are genuine. The evil Li uses a parody of moves that aren't real at all but copies of what western kids think martial arts looks like. What he does is a big joke, and something to admire and respect, for him to poke fun at his western audience, at least for those of us who pay attention.In Hollywood films, there has to be all this foolery with guns. See `Once Upon a Time in China' to get a feel for the background battle between shooting/blowing-up movies and martial arts films. This sets the stage for the two universes, which he surely feels battling.But the very existence of this movie --- left for us to find after the battle is over -- is indication enough of which Li won.
Non-stop action
posted on 18 Apr 2009I really liked The One for the action alone. It's only about 85 minutes long so don't expect a riveting story or some intricate plot because it's not there. The movie establishes its purpose in the beginning and that's pretty much it...no twists, no new discoveries, no heart-warming scenes that's gonna make you care for anyone. The movie is wall to wall action and rarely stops. This is a straight up action film with a sci-fi setting. It's science fiction without the science..Demolition Man style with with martial arts thrown in. Jet Li plays both the good guy and the villain and his villain role steals the show until the final fight scene. The Jet vs. Jet fight scene is amazing and shows that Jet is the man when it comes to martial arts and what he does can't be imitated. "good" Jet's BaGua Zhang fist style is beautiful for lack of a better term. "bad" Jet's Xinyi style is very brutal so it's not really graceful, just straight forward attack. Honestly it made the Matrix fight scenes look silly by comparison.The wife and multiverse cop characters could have been developed better but they served their purpose. The movie certainly could have been longer and the soundtrack works in some parts and not in others...too much alternative for my taste. Those are the only problems I have with The One. It leaves you wanting more. If it's a box office hit it definitely has room for a sequel. Overall I thought it was a good movie for eye candy and action/martial arts junkies.
pure unadulterated fun
posted on 07 Mar 2009The One is probably the best action movie to watch in the last quarter of this year. The plot is simple and easy to understand so the audience will not be focused on questions about the film, they're focused on the action.Although I don't really like seeing Jet Li fighting with the use of digital effects because I don't want to see a very "robotic" Jet Li, the digital effects used in the movie didn't upstage his true form and talent. Jet Li is still amazing, and he could've done most of those fight scenes without the help of digital effects technology.The movie has heart, even though other people say its hardcore action, and the emotional factor has been contributed by Carla Gugino (who plays Li's wife in the movie), and Jet Li (the good Jet Li) himself. I must say Jet Li has grown to be a better actor to, besides being a martial arts master, and I conclude that in the future, he will be one most bankable Asian actors in Hollywood.All in all, I give the movie a perfect 10. Great acting, very simple yet exciting plot, clean and graceful fight scenes... a martial arts movie fan wouldn't want to miss this.
"I am Yulaw! I am nobody's bitch!"
posted on 23 Feb 2009`The One' is very predictable and uses almost every action movie cliché in the book. And I loved it.Glen Morgan, James Wong, and Jet Li just wanted to make an action movie, that's all. They are guilty of that and nothing more. The action sequences were well done, the special effects were cool (love the transporter effect), and the use of parallel universes was interesting. And hey, Jet Li makes a really cool villain. (This movie also features the cat who usually jumps out from behind a piece of furniture and scares a jumpy cop and/or frightened teen-ager. That cat gets a lot of work…)Gabriel Law's ending is pure 100% cornball au gratin, but the final fate of his evil twin more than makes up for it (It almost qualifies as a happy ending for that character).
Average One
posted on 21 Feb 2009This is an average film. It looks OK and it moves fast enough to leap over the gaping holes in the derivative narrative but that is about it. It wants to be another 'Matrix' crossed with 'Highlander' but fails to have the impact of either. Jet Li anyway does not need special effects and CGI. Fighting himself in the film is unfortunately a very thin gimmick. Mr Li's 'Kiss of the Dragon' is far better because it is just him taking on the bad guys, in the raw. His tremendous skills don't need any added extras. We don't watch Jet Li films for the explosions or the FX. His acting in English improves all the time which is good to see. The quality of his films vary a lot these days but the man is still more watchable than most actors, east or west.Delroy Lindo is solid as usual. Carla Gugino was pretty good in a slight role. The rest of the cast are bland. The music is the usual noisy mish-mash that make up a contemporary movie score.
One Great action flick
posted on 19 Feb 2009Jet Li continues to make a name for himself with Amercian action flicks. The One is no exception. The film has great fight scenes, a fast paced script and good casting. Jet Li plays the dual roles very well and he delivers one of the best one liners ever in the movie. All in all if you want a good action flick check this "One" out.
Brilliant idea, but very poorly executed and wasted script potential.
posted on 19 Feb 2009I didn't want to write this movie off on the reviews and critics in the western world, I mean how wrong have they been about Asian cinema that has now become a staple diet of the Hollywood remake monster? Plus Jet L is pretty damn cool, and he's made some interesting movies in Asia. So with an open mind I was surprisingly averaged out by this movie.There are good points. The story is very clever, using M-Theory as a base to bring forward the plot that there are multiple universes each with their own versions of worlds, and most likely you. Each time one of you is destroyed the rest share the energy and power amongst them. The idea that someone might try and purposely become the only version of themselves in all the Universes to find out if they become a God.There's also Jet Li, and he's not a bad actor and pretty nimble as a martial artist, plus Jason Statham who is an all round good actor. As for the special effects, some of them are really cool, a mixing of bullet time, and slow motion with normal speed, very cool to watch in places.The bad points? Well Statham's accent is appalling, and some of the effects aren't as comparable as others, so it's quite apparent that money was spent on some of the main shots and not on others that were probably deemed as too short on screen or they just plain ran out of budget.A big sore point for me is the close cropped camera action that Hollywood has long favoured, something that Jackie Chan has often talked about. Filming fight scenes close up serves two purpose. It gives greater emphasis on a single punch or movement, making it look harder and more real than it really is, and it also hides what is going on around the camera lens. For example people holding a fake arm or the face of a stunt double, etc.What Chan always said was that he tried to open out the camera and show the audience what was going on, let them see the people fighting properly rather than a close up of a face and a fist, cutting to someone falling into frame. Showing the whole picture is more effective, and it's more impressive.So the close cropped shots were just more annoying than anything, you failed to see the impressiveness of Li's fighting skills, and you found it hard to see some of the action. Slow the cuts down and pan out the camera Hollywood Directors! The biggest problem was the story though, despite having such a strong base on which to build, they seemed to loose the sense of the plot and concentrate on the action scenes. There are some serious plot building and explanatory moments that are just totally overlooked and covered in the space of a few sentences, yet these could have formed some excellent and complex character development.It just all held together too weakly, and not enough was made of the story. All in all, not a great movie and it's potential was badly spoiled.
Occasional good action, but overall a predictable movie with the usual Hollywood formula touch.
posted on 22 Jan 2009The OneThe idea is, that in the future we all exist in multiverses, as in multiple universes. A new technique has been build to make it possible for one to travel between them, a former cop of the multiverse has discovered that by killing his "clones" he will unite the force of them all in himself. He has by now killed them all, there is only one left. 2 new multiverse cops are chasing him, Julaw, as he finds the last one he is seeking, whom is also a well trained police man.It sounds a little confusing yeah, but you quickly discover the meaning of it all. Actually it's a very interesting and original plot and background for the movie, sadly the movie far from takes advantages of it, instead of building a unique sci-fi experience and experimenting with the idea, the movie chooses to build one action cliché upon another. Sadly this just fades out in the end. The movie is obviously build after a typical Hollywood formula, it has everything a modern Hollywood film needs. Romance, action, thrills, effects etc. Sadly the movie fails to succeed in all of the, everything is very predictable, and i saw the end coming after 15 minutes or so, the whole movie felt like something you've seen before, just now in a different scenario. To bad they didn't take advantage of the interesting background story, it could have been such a good movie, but instead it becomes "just another movie", which I will probably have forgotten in not too long.The movie also takes an obvious inspiration in a movie like "The Matrix", especially the many bullet-time sequences shows that, sadly this just doesn't work as well here. The movie sort of end up with a feeling of a computer game, Jet Li's fantastic material talents are sadly wasted here by computer work, instead of showing them raw, they're altered by all kind of special effects, unfortunately.James Wong was also behind the partly successful "Final Destination", but in this movie it doesn't feel like he got much experience, somehow he manages to turn a promising movie into a braindead action movie, that brings what a million movies have done before. This really is just another movie.The acting isn't too good either. Especially Jet Li and Carla Gugino's chemistry was absolutely terrible. It was just so obvious that the scenes where we were supposed to see how much they loved each other, well they were like a shadow of themself, generally Jet Li's performance felt very hollow, and it was like he had no interest in the acting of the movie himself, felt like he was thinking of something else while giving us a few one liners and shallow performance. To Sum it all up a bit. This movie could have been so much more than it became, the storyline is very promising, but the movie fails to take advantage of it. Instead this movie has become just another movie, that everyone will have forgotten soon, this is not a memorable movie by any movies. Only thing i will remember it for is how it ruined the always great Jet Li martial arts, by adding unnecessary computer effects to everything. The movie does sometimes bring a few good moments, some of the action scenes are entertaining, it's just all been seen before, but for fans of action movie it will probably entertain for the 82 minutes it lasts.4/10
Plot does matter
posted on 30 Aug 2009The action scenes were great, unfortunately the story was very thin. It just ran out of steam and the movie ended in a very unsatisfying manner. I hope this is not a trend - Matrix action but without a story. The trailers look great but there's no butter on the popcorn!