A cop finds himself facing a version of himself from another dimension, who wants to kill all the alternate versions of himself in an effort to become a god.
Jet Li stars as both the villain and protagonist in this, which is a nice approach. But somehow, the movie falls flat, and it's hard to explain exactly why.
The sci-fi elements to the movie are generally well-done. Something reminds me of Demolition Man (which I've only seen a bit of). We open with an explanation that many dimensions exist. We eventually learn that the ties between the same people in each of these means that if one of them dies, some sort of power transfer happens, and the remaining copies of that person become more powerful. Somehow, this has given the antagonist the ability to run at 50 mph, and dodge bullets. Logically, shouldn't the protagonist have the same abilities then?
There's loads of action, plenty of special effects, many of the dealing with speeding up/slowing down time. The fights lean toward traditional martial arts movies - which I haven't been a fan of. The fights somehow seem a bit dull. I wish I could say I knew what would spice things up, but it just doesn't seem interesting.
I do have one specific complaint about the movie. There's a really annoying aspect to several fight sequences. They dump nu-metal music over these. Disturbed, Drowning Pool, Papa Roach, Godsmack, Linkin Park… it's just terrible. It instantly dates the movie, and it makes me want to tune these sequences out.
The premise of the movie is actually pretty good, but it seems like they could have come up with a more interesting application for it.
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