I saw The One tonight. Lame.

It's loud, gratuitiously violent, and the science involved reminds me of Timecop, and that's not a compliment. Exactly how all the universes work, etc. wasn’t explained until what seemed like 45 minutes into the film.I was actually glad when the final confrontation came.

Jet Li's command of the language is horrible. The character who ends up being Jet Li’s ally is an awful actor with horrible delivery. He's all snear and growl.

There's little martial arts in it, and the two Jet Li's (Gabe and Yulaw) don't even fight one another until the very end of the film (although the the scene where Gabe, the good character, handcuffs three or four guys to a chair is great).

The moments where some in the audience cheered or "oohhed" were blatant ripoffs of The Matrix, far more so than the scenes in next years Equilibrium that got the same accusations in the three test screenings I attended for that film.

I didn’t buy the notion that there are all these universes that have not only discovered the mulitverse, and how they’re formed, when wormholes open between them, etc., but that they’ve even developed technology to access them, and all in the year 2001, as evidenced by the news features on the President.

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I also didn’t care for what happened to TK, Carla Gugino’s character. The good guy in an action movie is supposed to save the girl, I don’t care what the ending was.
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The one highpoint of the night was getting to see Lisa Ling from The View and her fiance, Rick Yune (the Asian gentleman who got punched out by Vin Diesel in The Fast and the Furious), helping to seat them, and sitting right behind them. Lisa leaned her head and Rick’s shoulder during the film. Awwwww….

Other minor nits:

One of the Law’s (The names of the all the Jet Li’s in the multiverse in the movie end in the letters "l-a-w") gets killed in the beginning of the film, by being shot. He is a convict being transported to safety from his prison, is given a bullet proof vest and helmet, and we see the Yulaw shoot him in the helmet’s visor. Isn’t the visor bulletproof? If not, what’s the point of it?

So if there are 125 universes, and everytime a person in one of them dies, the other ones get stronger, didn’t this occur with people other than the Jet Li’s? If there’s one of me in each universe, then the same thing would happen to me and the rest of my avatars across the multiverse. Is Yulaw the first this ever happened to?

Yulaw killed his counterpart in all the other universes except Gabe, which is 123. It certainly seemed like he killed more when he killed the officers transporting the prisoner in the beginning of the film. And when Gabe goes for an MRI, Yulaw attacks him, and ends up killing a security guard, which I’m sure Delroy Lindo’s character witnessed. Later, after escaping in a van, Delroy Lindo’s character, a multiverse enforcement agent, appears in the van, having hidden in the back, and tells Yulaw he killed 123 people. He forgot about the security guard, and everyone else he killed.

Where exactly did they send Gabe at the end of the movie? Back in time? To another universe? If they sent him to another universe whose "Law" has been killed by Yulaw, then wouldn’t the appearance of this new one raise some questions? He has no ID, no money, the guy who looks just like him is dead, and if the Law in that universe was a crook too, like the one killed in the beginning of the movie, then Gabe is going to have far greater problems than his dog’s broken leg.

One of the universes is called the Hades Universe, a prison universe where all the criminals are sent. We see it at the end of the film, but in addition to all the criminals, there seem to be entire complexes, and a helicopter flies by, indicating that there are people who maintain this place. First, I’d wonder what’s the point. Second, do these people working in this place live in this prison universe? Or do they commute to "home" universes? If it’s the latter, then it gives the crooks an opportunity for escape. If the Hades universe is not entirely a prison universe, then the criminals could escape the prison and harm the civilians, presenting the same problem as in the other universes.

Adam Bomb: In Private Parts Howard Stern is shown clean shaven during his DJ job in Washington. I believe that he had his mustache while he was working in D.C. He had the mustache for his first few years in New York, and also had it in his brief appearance in the very obscure, ultra-low-budget pic "Ryder P.I."

And Adam, Howard was also weighed more around then. He didn't lose the weight until later on.

(BTW, how was Changing Lanes?)

Sorry, Luigi. Never got to go. My son took sick that day, with a high fever, and I was unable to go.

Hope he is ok, Adam.

Ditto. Maybe next time, Adam. I'll email you when I have something in the city.

I dunno I liked this movie. Had a good soundtrack, enouhg action to keep things going and it isnt supposed to be analyzed like a documentory.

Having played Rifts I can understand the multiverse concept. And just because our universe may not have developed wormhole access tech does not mean that another one hasn't. Maybe that verse didnt have the space race die out and tech kept building or the wars came earlier and jumped technology a lot quicker. Either that or maybe the home universe wasn't at 2001. Which I'll agree is a bit unlikely as time stream slippage when doing a versejump could be a bit problematic.

As for the various people dying. Yeah there are probobaly one or two of you dying at any one time and the energy distrubtion is minor. What Law did was kill a sgnificant amount of other hims so that the energy distibution was a lot more significant. See say there are 100 Luigi's (a scary thought I know) and on average most of them are going to die of old age at one point or another, a few will enounter more unfortunate ends. Say 5 of them at any one point die early over a typical lifespan, thats not the same as 98 of them dying within a few months.

As for teh visor they are made generally out of safety perspex and lexan. So they are shrapnel and small arms fire resistant. What Law was using would not fall under that category.

As for the rest of it thats the wonders of the multiverse.

At the end of the movie, the authorities say that Yulaw must not be allowed to die, or the resulting redistribution of energy on Gabe would make him far too dangerous and impossible to control. Fine. So why the heck did they send him to the Hades universe, the one place where he has the greatest chance of being killed?