What if Al Gore won the two thousand election? We’d have a multidimensional police force that operates like another sci fi movie with a martial artist. Jet Li plays himself, on trial for attempting to kill all the other known versions of himself. As they attempt to exile him to the phantom zone, something goes wrong and he invades the world with the last other Jet Li In he One[2001], the other version, Good Li, is busy being a married man and nice guy. Evil Li is seeking Good Li because he wants to be The One. Whenever one of the other dimensional version of a person dies, their power … Continue reading Popcorn Pulse 116: The One →
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