The One(2001)

PG-13
Rated PG-13 for intense action violence and some language
1h 27m

Release Date: Nov 2, 2001 | Wide

A rogue Multiverse agent goes on a manhunt for alternate versions of himself, getting stronger with each kill. Only the last version of himself, an LASD cop, can stop his crusade before he becomes "The One".

Releases

Original Release | Nov 2, 2001

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Updated as of May 14, 2026 11:53 AM ET

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$19,112,404
Total US & Canada:
$43,905,746
Total International
$35,724,432
Total Worldwide:
$79,630,178

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Director & Top Cast

James Wong
Director

Jet Li
Gabe, Yulaw, Lawless

Carla Gugino
T.K., Massie Walsh

Delroy Lindo
Roedecker, Attendant

Jason Statham
Funsch

James Morrison
Aldrich, 'A' World Inmate #1

Dylan Bruno

Yates

Richard Steinmetz

D'Antoni

Steve Rankin

MVA Supervisor

Tucker Smallwood

Prison Warden

Harriet Sansom Harris

Nurse Besson

David Keats

MRI Technician

Dean Norris

Sgt. Siegel

Ron Zimmerman

Rotten Ronnie

Darin Morgan

Hugo

Mark Borchardt

Cesar

Joel Stoffer

Dr. Franklin

Ashlyn Gere

Dr. Hamilton

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: DTS,Dolby Digital,SDDS

Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

Summaries

Plot Summary

A superhuman criminal named Gabriel YuLaw (Jet Li), once an officer of the "Multiverse Authority" (MVA) agent from Alpha Universe that polices inter-dimensional travel (via detecting wormhole openings, which can be predicted like the weather). YuLaw seeks to hunt down and kill all other variations of himself in alternate universes. Travel between Universes is highly restricted and policed.He has already eliminated Yu Fook Law (Jet Li) a R from Monoceros Universe, Swen Law (Jet Li) a surfer from Tucana Universe, Ni Dilaw (Jet Li) from Canopus Universe, Kia Jilaw (Jet Li) from Serpens Universe, Seth Law (Jet Li) a long haired man from Procyon Universe, Frun Law (Jet Li) from Shaula Universe, and Lawless (Jet Li) a notorious and violent criminal from Anubis Universe.YuLaw is arrested for breaking the law by undertaking unauthorized Multiverse jumps. YuLaw is incarcerated by MVA agents Rodecker (Delroy Lindo) and Funsch (Jason Statham) after he kills Lawless. They bring him back to his original Alpha Universe. In total, YuLaw has eliminated 123 alternate versions of himself in other Universes.By killing all of his other selves, and thus becoming the last version of himself and absorbing their life energies into himself, he believes he will become "The One", a godlike being. YuLaw has already become very powerful and has the strength to bend prison bars with his single punch. He has super-human speed and strength.YuLaw manages to escape from captivity during the final phase of his sentence to life (without possibility of return) to a penal colony in the Hades universe. He is helped in his escape by Massie Walsh (Carla Gugino) a sexy red-haired criminal and Gabriel Yulaw's girlfriend and lover in Alpha Universe. Using the wormhole window, he changes the destination to the Charis Universe. Rodecker and Funsch are stuck as the wormhole window was only for 30 seconds and now, they have to wait for the next window.The last known alternate, Gabriel/Gabe Law (Jet Li), works in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department from Charis Universe. For two years he has been experiencing increases in strength, speed and mental ability but neither he nor his wife, T.K. Law (TK) (Carla Gugino), can understand why. While transporting a snitching prisoner for the Sheriff's Department, Gabe "feels" Yulaw's presence just before he attempts to kill Gabriel Law. Yulaw escapes, with Gabe giving chase and leaping a very high wall - which is humanly impossible.Upon landing on the other side Yulaw faces Gabe and shoots him, but not fatally. Going in for the kill, Yulaw is interrupted by Rodecker and Funsch. Gabe Law sees Yulaw, who is identical to him in every way. Being unfamiliar with inter-dimensional travel between universes, Yulaw's appearance is incomprehensible. At the hospital again Gabe feels Yulaw's presence. There is another fight and Rodecker and Funsch again intervene.Yulaw deters them from shooting him because if he is killed, then Gabe will pose a problem because he would then be left as the only "One". Dressed alike and identical in every way, Gabe and Yulaw's battle confuse Gabe's Sheriff Department colleagues. Both Gabe and Yulaw manage to escape the hospital.Rodecker is faced with a dilemma: they are chasing two super-humans, they cannot kill either one. Funsch insists that YuLaw, as the instigator, must be dealt with in a more aggressive manner. Rodecker makes a fateful decision to "go way off procedure" and split the team. Rodecker pursues Yu Law and is killed. Funsch catches up with Gabe and tells him about the multiverse and why he has become stronger. Yulaw finds Gabe's residence where TK, believing it is Gabe, attempts to protect him, but she senses he is not really Gabe. Gabe arrives only to have Yulaw force him to watch while he kills her. Funsch finds Gabe and they team up to find Yulaw at the next occurrence of a wormhole - an industrial plant.Yulaw, Gabe Law and Funsch arrive at the industrial plant, where the final battle between Gabe and Yulaw takes place. Ultimately Gabe is victorious, but all three are caught in the wormhole and travel back to the MVA headquarters in the Alpha Universe. Yu Law is transported immediately to the prison colony universe after a last-ditch attempt to switch places with Gabe.The MVA then prepares to send Gabriel back to his own universe where he will be arrested and put in prison for the murders Yulaw committed, but Agent Funsch instead sends him a universe that is similar to Gabe's past via another wormhole, after Gabe told him about the events which led up to him meeting his wife.As for Yulaw, now on the penal colony, he declares his intent to still become the one; standing at the top of a Ziggurat in the Hades universe, in order to prove his capability of becoming the one, Yu Law commences to battle oncoming waves of hundreds of provoked fighters approaching the Ziggurat.

Storyline

There is not one universe, but there are many, which is a multiverse. Supposing you are just one person, there are many other versions of you in the other universes, there are ways to travel, but only a police agency, MVA, can travel only for police procedures. Gabriel Yulaw is a former MVA agent, who killed another version of himself in self-defense. It made the other versions of him stronger. When Yulaw found out about this, he became power-hungry killing the 122 other versions for two years. After killing Lawless and getting captured by his former partner Roedecker and a new MVA agent Funsch, Yulaw managed to escape the prison and is trying to kill his last target, Gabe Law who is a police officer. He is also at Yulaw's strength. Roedecker and Funsch now have to arrest Yulaw before he can kill Gabe. There is a possibility that the universe could die or make Yulaw invincible. After encountering Yulaw for the first time, Gabe thought that it was his split personality, but it wasn't. Will Gabe be able to confront Yulaw before or after Yulaw ruins his life? — Zero 88 In a dual role, Jet Li portrays Gabriel Yulaw, 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. What if there is more than one universe and that all of these universes are held together by one single stream of energy. That energy is equally distributed to every living being in each universe and if one of these beings die, that energy is reallocated equally to each other surviving member. With each allocation, a person becomes stronger. Now one universe has mastered the ability of crossing into another universe and a man named Yulaw who believes that, if he can kill all of his counterparts, he will become invincible. But there are those who believe that it might have detrimental effects, so begins the manhunt for the most dangerous villain in the multiverse. Unfortunately, he just has one more person to kill, Gabe Law. Otherworldly police officers follow Yulaw but the madman has committed some unthinkable crimes, leaving Gabe accused and wanted. But Gabe discovers that he has changed, only wanting to kill Yulaw; unaware of what could happen. — rcs0411@yahoo.com