Knock off
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Knock off |
| Original title | Knock off |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tsui Hark |
| script | Steven E. de Souza |
| production | Nansun Shi |
| music |
Ron Mael Russell Mael |
| camera | Arthur Wong |
| cut | Craig Henighan |
| occupation | |
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Knock Off is an American action film from the year 1998 with the Belgian actor Jean-Claude Van Damme in the lead role of Marcus Ray.
action
The location of the film is Hong Kong . The American Marcus Ray makes fake jeans of a well-known brand and then delivers them to the USA by container ship . The Russian mafia wants to sew microchips , which turn out to be bombs with high explosive power, into their jeans in order to trigger bomb attacks in America. Ray wants to prevent that. He takes up the fight with some friends. On a container ship, there is a showdown between fighters of the Russian mafia and Marcus and his friends. Marcus triumphs over the criminal organization, preventing the deaths of thousands of people in the United States.
criticism
“A meaningless action production in which an accomplished martial arts director squandered his talent on a second-rate actor. The hair-raising, unmotivated cinematic stylistic devices testify to the lack of trust in the trivial story. "
"Action specialist Tsui Hark choreographs masterfully, but the story itself has burst all the seams."
Web links
- Knock Off in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Knock Off at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 16 - FSK 18 by Knock Off at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Knock Off . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2009 (PDF; test number: 80 641-a V / DVD / UMD).
- ↑ Knock Off. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 20, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.tvspielfilm.de/kino/filmarchiv/film/knock-off,1311642,ApplicationMovie.html