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This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Knock Off is the film that marked JCVD's rapid decline as a Hollywood star. It does looks like a cheap knock off of a martial arts action comedy movie. I can only guess that Jackie Chan rejected the original script.Set in Hong Kong in the eve of the British handover of the colony to the Chinese, which in no way explains why the place is crawling with CIA operatives. Jean Claude Van Damme plays Marcus Ray who is involved in fake fashion designs with Tommy Hendricks (Rob Schneider) as well as taking part in Rickshaw races.However Ray and Hendricks must stop the Russian mafia who are smuggling fake goods with micro bombs inserted inside.The plot is a confusing mess, so are the fight scenes. The special effects are bad with green smoke and explosions. The acting is hammy, by the late 1990s it was obvious that only Pauly Shore was below Schneider in marking a film as comedy death if one of them appeared in it.

*SPOILERS* Knock Off (1998) is very forgettable Hong Kong action movie. I still don't know what the hell this movie is about? This film is completely a Jackie Chan Movie. Van Damme moves like Jackie Chan. Mostly action scenes seems to be dubbed from Jackie Chan and Stanley Tong's movies that they work on them together. The action in here is good, but not that good. If they were playing an Chinese Action movie, they could came up with Van Damme action style movie flick, or better script and better storyline, but no! I realized that Sammo Hung was the second director for Van Damme's scenes, that is why they made this movie like a Jackie Chan movie. It is sort of a good-bad action movie. I don't hate the movie, but I don't like Knock Off either, but in my opinion Double Team is just way much better movie than this. I still like that this movie is made in the late 90's in Hong Kong and I think Van Damme did a solid job in here.Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rob Schneider and Michael Wong trio action stars on the ship did a terrific outstanding job, but I would replaced three or two actors in this movie, in the Van Damme support team. I would replaced Rob Schneider with Hong Kong action star Donnie Yen, he would be much better choice for play Marcus Ray's (Van Damme) partner. I would replaced Lela Rochon with Cynthia Khan, because Lela is black and can not act or kicking ass. I would rather put Cynthia Khan in this movie. Donnie Yen and Cynthia Khan worked together with Michael Wong in my favorite Hong Kong martial arts action film In the Line of Duty IV (1989) one of the best Hong Kong action martial arts movie, I have ever seen. Donnie Yen and Cynthia Khan did return one year later in another action film Tiger Cage II (1990), this time Donnie Yen was the lead star in that movie and Cynthia was only a support co star, who was only in a few scenes, because her character was telling her own side of her story. That is why I liked about those Hong Kong movies.I liked Van Damme and his martial arts, when Van Damme in the factory put a chain around his knuckles and kicks those triads ass, trying to kill him, that was awesome. Asian cinema was coming strong like Jackie Chan and Jet Li so Van Damme teams up with Tsui Hark an Asian director marking their second collaboration together (the other was "Double Team"). It was something new for JCVD cause you had comedy with Rob Schnieder co-starring made the movie a decent action comedy, but I recommend the "Rush Hour" trilogy over this one. This is one of the strange movies , and the storyline is all over the place , its quite funny though , it's crazy in parts. I mean I never heard about counterfeit jeans? I thought this movie is more about smuggling Heroine, or cocaine. In the opening scene you see Michael Wong chasing someone, than some explosions and you see a lot of dolls in the water. I thought in the dolls where hiding drugs in it, now I know they weren't. What did Michael Wong chase at all? This movie to me, makes no sense I don't know what the hell the CIA was doing in this movie at all?, what they try to do with the story line? I blame Steven E. de Souza for this flick, It is his fault for making a terrible script, Van Damme has not even one good line in this movie at all! Other Chinese actors voices where dubbed. Why was an Afro-American Woman in this Chinese movie? Why? If Tsui Hark would have replaced Steven E. de Souza with Chi-Sing Cheung, Wing-Fai Wong and Kwong Kim Yip who made a script and storyline for In The Line of Duty IV (1989), this movie would not be a disaster! I don't like this movie for what it is, and it is not my Van Damme favorite film and I keep forgetting what this movie is about at all? Btw the acting from the cast and crew is terrible and laughably bad, the dialog is really dull and pretty stupid! Rob Schnieder is not an action star, stop putting him in an action movies guys! Anyway this movie get's by me a 4, because I liked the action scenes, but the explosions where bad CGI's. I like Van Damme a lot in this movie, he did a great job, but I will not seeing this anytime soon again.Knock Off is a 1998 Hong Kong action crime film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a sales representative who deals in counterfeit jeans who along with his partner find themselves mixed up in a conspiracy involving Russian mafia, terrorists, and the CIA. Knock Off was the second film collaboration between director Tsui Hark (A Better Tomorrow III) and Jean-Claude Van Damme, following 1997's Double Team.2/10 Grade: E- Studio: TriStar Pictures, MDP Worldwide Film Workshop Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rob Schneider, Lela Rochon, Michael Wong, Paul Sorvino, Wyman Wong, Carman Lee, Glen Chin Director: Tsui Hark Producer: Nansun Shi Screenplay: Steven E. de Souza Rated: R Running Time: 1 Hr. 31 Mins. Budget: $35.000.000 Box Office: $44,000,000

Set in Hong Kong, Knock Off is the tale of how the fashion industry intersects with the Russian mafia and the CIA. As if you didn't already know. Tommy Hendricks (Schneider) is a fashion designer and his pal Marcus Ray (Van Damme) is shocked when he discovers "knock off" goods on the streets of Hong Kong, such as "Pumma" sneakers. But it's all just a ruse to smuggle high-tech weaponry such as extremely dangerous and destructive bombs that explode with green flames. When the marketing manager for V-Six jeans, Karen Lee (Rochon), gets involved - as anyone might if they were somehow embroiled in a scenario that involved Exploding Counterfeit Jeans (or ECJ's, as we like to call them) - they meet the mysterious Harry Johanson (Sorvino) and the stage is set for a lot of high-octane fights, stunts, chases and battles. Will these knock off products finally get our heroes...knocked off? Find out today! The purpose of movies, especially movies like this, is to entertain. And Knock Off certainly does. It seems to work overtime to please the viewer with all sorts of fast-paced and off-kilter scenarios, and the vibe becomes infectious. Just as director Tsui Hark did the previous year with JCVD in Double Team (1997), he teams him up with a wacky American sidekick. With Double Team, unforgettably, it was the one and only Dennis Rodman. Here, it's with unlikely action star Rob Schneider. We even get some brief Schneider-Fu, and, unfortunately, he also appears shirtless. Both Rodman and Schneider were hot in the 90's - which is easy to forget these days - which just adds even more to the nutty feel of these movies.If it's one thing Knock Off has, it's style, and we're not just talking about fashion. Hark's direction is filled with energy and overflowing with unusual camera angles (such as "shoe vision") to the point where it can be described as cartoonish. Far from a bad thing, the whole venture seems very "Hong Kong" and he probably figured, after Double Team, 'to hell with the American market, I'm doing this my way.' What reinforces that are the fun, Jackie Chan-style stunts and fights. Sammo Hung is credited as Second Unit Director, and this may seem insane, but you can actually tell. It's his action style all the way. JCVD gets a great intro to his character in the film, and both he and Rob Schneider both wear zany Hawaiian shirts for most of the movie's running time. Clearly they are the height of fashion. JCVD also has his typical funny faces on display, adding to the charm of the movie.While it was nice to see Paul Sorvino on board, though he seemed a tad bit confused (though wouldn't you be?) - especially in the scenes where he, Rochon, Schneider and Van Damme are all together (talk about powerful casting) - truly the biggest coup were getting the Mael brothers of Sparks fame to do the music. Their closing credits title song is very slick, clever and catchy, like most of their other work. You'll be singing "It's a knock off..." for weeks. Yes, weeks. Varouje Hagopian did additional music, and we've seen that name before (he seems to do the music for a lot of Billy Blanks movies). In the end, if it's zany, colorful, well-choreographed action you seek, Knock Off is a great choice.

when I first saw this when it came out, I wasn't impressed. I thought Tsui Hark was selling out to Hollywood, and getting unnecessarily flashy in doing so.Seeing it again some ten years later, I have to admit I'm impressed. It's not just the story or the action scenes, or the integration of humor into the thriller storyline. But what once looked like flashiness now reveals itself as careful restraint. Tsui is working hard here to avoid any unnecessary frame, creating a film that admittedly jars visually, but does so tightly, with almost no excess imagery or story element. The film still looks fresh after a decade; while not great art, it's just supremely professional movie making. And in keeping with that, Tsui also manages to get restrained performance by two slices of Hollywood ham, Van Damme and Rob Schneider, the latter being one of the least tolerable comic actor I've ever had the misfortune to encounter on film. But here he seems almost at home in a Hitchcockian spy thriller with Jackie Chan flavored sense of humor - exactly where you would least expect to find him.Over all, although only a B-movie thriller, remains a neat accomplishment for Tsui Hark.