It's more thrill ride than movie and Wong plays it that way: no sentiment, no complications and no pesky story to get in the way of an arsenal of flashy special effects.
50
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Overall, this sci-fi/martial arts hybrid has the stale aura of a product assembled out of bits of other action movies.
It's hardly much of a thrill to see The One recycle, on a lower budget, the slo-mo bullet dodges from "The Matrix," along with unspectacular variations on several other of that film's time-bending demolition-ballet effects.
40
L.A. Weekly
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
There's nothing like a feature-length video game to make you feel you're being played.