The One (2001)
The One
”A police officer must fight a deadly version of himself from a parallel universe.”
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It's Jet Li against Jet Li in this action and science fiction movie. In 'The One', the honorable police officer Gabriel Yulaw (Li) must face a lethal version of himself, who travels from one alternate universe to another killing all his "other selves" in order to become stronger. It's a movie with a very 2000s sensibility: cheesy dialogue, special effects that are already showing their age, and a multiverse premise for which, perhaps, the audience of that time was not ready. But there are excellent fights with Jet Li, and that's always entertaining to watch.
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Gabriel Yulaw is a police officer confronted with a sinister form of himself escaped from an advanced, parallel universe and intent on killing Gabriel. His alter ego's hunt culminates in a fateful battle between good and evil that changes Gabriel's perception of reality and forces him to examine the evil hidden within himself.
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