Knock Off

1998
R
1h 31m

IMDb RATING

4.9/10

17K

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Jean-Claude Van Damme in Knock Off (1998)

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Action Crime Thriller

A fashion designer must join forces with a C.I.A. agent to combat terrorism.A fashion designer must join forces with a C.I.A. agent to combat terrorism.A fashion designer must join forces with a C.I.A. agent to combat terrorism.

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IMDb RATING

4.9/10

17K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Han
(as Michael Fitzegerald Wong)

Moses Chan

Officer Fong

Lynne Langdon

V-Six Secretary

Ray Nicholas

Karl
(as Raymond Leslie Nicholas)

Jeff Wolfe

Skaar
(as Jeff Joseph Wolfe)

Michael Miller

Tickler

Steve Brettingham

Hawkeye

Mark Houghton

Bear

Peter Nelson

Biff

Kim Penn

Chip
(as Kim Maree Penn)

Thomas Hudak

Kyle

Director
- Hark Tsui
Writer
- Steven E. de Souza
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Trivia
Hong Kong superstar and director Sammo Kam-Bo Hung served as the film's 2nd unit director. The release print of "Knock Off" suffers from the removal of a lot of the martial arts action shot for the film, with a couple of sequences being very heavily edited. The final battle between Jean-Claude Van Damme's character and Australian actor/stuntman Michael Miller is less than half of the action shot for their fight, and upon careful viewing you can pick up the fact that the fight has raged across several different sections on the boat, while the fight between Jeff Wolfe's character Scar and Jean-Claude's is the most heavily edited with more of the action being shown in the "Making Of" featured on several of the DVD editions than in the finished film.

Goofs
At the beginning, the dead guy that flew out of the boat,uses his own hand to push himself over as he is being kicked to turn over.

Quotes
Tommy Hendricks: I sign things too. In private.
Karen Lee: Oh, things like that falsified document?
Tommy Hendricks: Oh, no, no, no! Ray signs all the false documents.
Karen Lee: Oh, I agree. And I think you two have spent your time in Hong Kong getting drunk, chasing ass and getting massages in stead of taking care of company's business.
Tommy Hendricks: Look, the massage industry in Hong Kong is going through a really tough time right now. I'm just trying to help out the local college girls!

Connections
Featured in Dans la peau de Jean-Claude Van Damme (2003)

Soundtracks
Its a Knock-Off
(main title)
Performed by Ron Mael and Russell Mael

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Featured review

5/10

It's a knock off...

A jeans manufacturer finds a conspiracy among triads that places micro-bombs in the jeans he sells. Of course the first shipment were slipped with knock offs but now they must make sure that the new shipment of clothes isn't shipped with the micro-bombs. Knock Off is the type of movie that would be right at home in a James Bond thriller. The movie is utterly ridiculous however this makes it strangely watchable and the whole confusing camera angles to which we see the inside of a phone, the inside of the bomb and even Van Damme's foot going into a sock all make this a very strange movie indeed. The action sequences are filmed with such crazy angles once can't tell what the hell is going on and it's not until the movie is over, where you realize what the hell you had just saw. Knock Off is one of the most surreal movies you could ever see, seriously. It's one of those movies that years from now may be looked at as a camp classic due to it's stylish excess. I for one, still can't tell you what the movie was about.

* * out of 4(Fair)