The One

A superhuman criminal (Jet Li), once a member of the organisation that polices travel between dimensions, seeks to hunt down and kill variations of himself (Jet Li) in these alternate universes. In doing so he absorbs their 'power' and becomes even stronger and faster, and believes that, if he can become the only surviving version of himself, "The One", he will become a god.

In principle I felt the multiverse idea was innovative and interesting, and the premise of 'gaining power' by killing your 'other selves' was fine, but the script totally failed to tackle the huge questions and plot holes that this basic premise really demanded they at least tried to address.

On the upside Jet Li in the martial arts action scenes was great - I especially liked his use of different fighting styles when he fights 'himself' and he's a good enough actor to carry off the amount he needs to do in this type of action film.
The supporting cast (including Jason Statham), too, did a fair job and I was pleased that the script didn't use the "confuse the audience by mistaking the good Jet Li for the bad one" shtick too often.

However, add to the huge logic problems some occasional, far too convenient changes in the amount of power the Jet Li characters have which seems to depend on what the writer wants the set up or outcome of a scene to be (rather than keeping them internally consistent) and all the 'surprise twists' at the climax of the film being very predictable (not only predictable but, as implemented, you just know it wouldn't work) the film just doesn't live up to its potential.

I really wanted to like The One more than I did but despite some good action set pieces and the SFX being pretty impressive, though a little outdated in style now, the logic of the plot (or rather the lack of it) just kept rearing its ugly head too often for me to ever really just sit back and enjoy the martial arts eye-candy.

The DVD (UK, Regions 2 & 4)
The image is a full widescreen anamorphic 2.40:1 (so the image will be letter-boxed on any TV) and the sound is Dolby Digital 5.1 in English and French.
Subtitles are available in separate English and English for Hard-of-Hearing tracks plus French Arabic and Hindi.

Though I had a rental disc and didn't watch he extras there are quite a few on there including a commentary (by director James Wong and his production designer, editor and cinematographer), four featurettes (including ones concentrating on Jet Li, the Multiverse idea, and the 'Many faces of the same person' sequence in the film) and and animatic comparison plus trailers and filmographies.

Final Summary:
Overall a decent package of extras and though, as I describe above, the film itself was a bit of a disappointment you can now pick it up for less than the price of a pint... add a couple more beers and some mates and I dare say it would be fine as cheap Saturday night entertainment if you like a bit of Jet Li action and can drink enough to ignore, or not care about, the plot holes.