Knock Off (1998)
2/10
silly and bad
10 May 2016
It's 1997 Hong Kong. Marcus Ray (Jean-Claude Van Damme) and Tommy Hendricks (Rob Schneider) buy and sell cheap knock off merchandises. They get entangled in a deadly conspiracy when their rickshaw race is attacked by the Russians. Tommy knocks out police detective Ling Ho and they get detained. Karen Lee is an executive at V-Six jeans and she's angry at them trying to pass her their knock offs. She's raiding a factory leased by their friend Eddie Wang and threatens to send them to prison. Ray is shocked that his four-year partner Tommy works undercover for the CIA under Harry Johannson (Paul Sorvino).

This is a rather silly movie. Van Damme and Schneider are trying to be a comedic duo. The joke is that all their products keep breaking. Neither are good actors and I think they make each other worst. The story is too much of a silly mess to explain. It's international espionage about nano-bombs in counterfeit jeans. Somebody should really reconsider this script. I'm willing to live with a lot from a Van Damme movie but this is too infuriating.
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