2001 · action · sci-fi · thriller
The One
Directed by James Wong1h 27m2001
A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills.
Our read: The One (2001) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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