Knock Off (1998)

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1. 

   ThomasFTB

   Did you ever think to yourself "I wanna see a movie directed by Tsui Hark and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme that revolves heavily around jeans counterfitting"? Well if so, you found your movie. And you need serious help 11 years 12 months ago
2. 

   Siskoid

   Every few years, Tsui Hark tries to reinvent the wheel, and frequently succeeds. I'm not sure his work in the late 90s really did however. It was the era of Time and Tide, Double Team, and Knock Off, nonsense action flicks that essentially act as proving grounds for experimental techniques. In Knock Off's case, there's entirely too much bad 90s CG and video toaster effects, hampering our enjoyment of story where the MacGuffin is, uhm, explosive jeans. Van Damme is Hong Kong's knock off king trying to go legit, but a CIA plot makes that impossible. I can't believe I'm gonna say this, but Rob Schneider is more than the comic relief sidekick here and I actually find him palatable. Career high? Anyway, if it's all quite ridiculous, like a parody of a normal Van Damme picture, the final, extended action set piece is really quite good. The direction calms down and let the high octane finale play out without all the tricks and it's spectacular. One wonders if earlier action scenes didn't quite work, forcing Tsui Hark to go crazy in the edit bay... 2 years 7 months ago
3. 

   Torgo

   Oh dear God, what was this. It seems like Hark Tsui had absolutely NO IDEA what he was filming there. The plot and action scenes may already seem ridiculous (not to begin with the cast of van Damme and Rob Schneider), but the zooms, camera gimmicks and the cut-per-second rate were just insane.
   
   So bad(bad) it's good? Self-awarely so bad it's good? Or maybe just bad? I'm confused now. 8 years 7 months ago

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