The One is a 2001 action film, directed by James Wong, director of Final Destination, and starring Jet Li, Jason Statham and Carla Gugino.
A superhuman criminal named Yu-Law (Jet Li), 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 (which possibly has to do something with the string theory as it was mentioned in the movie by Evan Funsch) that connects them all. By killing his other selves, (becoming the last version of himself) and absorbing their power, he think he will become a god.
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 in a near-image of our own universe (George W. Bush remained President, but had some policy differences such as a "Universal Health Care Plan") and, before the events of the movie, 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 busts through the metal and takes out the entire team, single handedly. He then has to flee on foot when more troops move in. He is seen "Doing fifty!" 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 the tall fence. Law then sees Yu-Law who is identicle to him in appearance, and Yu-Law says "The good news is, you're not crazy." Law is assisted by a member of the Multiverse Authority that Yu-Law once worked for, with the concern that if only one version of Yu-Law is left there will be catastrophic results for the entire multiverse.
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El único (2001) es una película de acción y ciencia-ficción protagonizada por Jet Li y Carla Gugino y dirigida por James Wong. Esta repleta de peleas de artes marciales y efectos especiales. Es considerada una de los mejores trabajos de Jet Li.
"No hay un universo, hay muchos, un multiuniverso, existe la tecnología para desplazarse de uno a otro; pero los viajes estan restringidos y custodiados, no hay uno solo como tú, hay muchos, cada uno existe en este momento en universos paralelos. Había equilibrio en el sistema, pero ahora, existe una fuerza capaz de romper el equilibrio para que pueda existir... El único."[1]
Gabriel Yulaw (Jet Li) es un ex-policía del multiuniverso que mata a uno de sus alter egos y se da cuenta que al matarlo aumenta su poder, por lo que comienza a matar al resto de ellos. Finalmente sólo queda uno, Gabe Law (Jet Li), y al derrotarlo podrá llegar a su meta final: ser el humano más poderoso del multiuniverso.
Gabe Law trabaja en el Departamento de Sheriffs de Los Ángeles y esta casado con Massie Walsh (Carla Gugino), Pero salvarse a sí mismo la única alternativa que le deja no es tan fácil como matar a su alter ego de otro mundo. Si Yulaw muere, el Bureau de Investigación Multiuniversal tiene estrictas órdenes de asegurarse de que Gabe, no se convierta en EL ÚNICO.
