The music really completes it.
Yeah I remember watching that film. It's quite terrible.
Still watchable though.
But I feel that the pan out from an epic dark toned final battle is something common with those films. For example I remember it occurring with the White House Battle in Resident Evil... uhhh... the one that ended in the White House.
Yeah... that one. Wesker is nobodies bitch!
The concept of
The One is that there are multiple realities which means its very trendy with the whole multiverse thing. But in this film, there are multiple Jet Li characters... and when one of them dies, his power is passed onto the surviving variants or whatever and making them even more superhuman. Obviously this means that there will be a rivalry between two Jet Li's. A Good one and an EVIL One who is nobodies bitch.
While obviously an amazing film, the plot does lead to troubling implications. If in fact you get stronger while your variants perish, clearly it would imply that in this multiverse there are like feeble, dementia ridden senior citizens with Matrix like superpowers.
It's almost the worst Jet Li - Jason Statham film I've ever seen. But that might actually go to the film
War which holds a special place in my heart because it was like the first film Jet Li did when he vowed not to make vapid mindless martial arts action movies anymore. He really tried to turn it into a crime drama like Heat or Godfather or something. What's bad was it wasn't just bad, but also kind of boring. But some of the elements of War were like... so good it's bad. Like San Francisco having a "Yakuza" and "Triad" Districts... as shown in the scene location titling. Or James Hong shouting "WHAT THE FUCK" after talking in Chinese for the whole scene.