Obviously
the products made are of an inferior quality and cannot hold up in any
kind of a comparable way to the real thing.
As Marcus takes place in a race
a friend of his is almost kidnapped and the bad guys try to kill him.
Who are these bad guys? And why are they chasing Marcus' friend?
These and many questions need to be answered in Knock Off.
Unfortunately there is no easy
way to summarize this film. Why? Well first off I don't like
to give away a lot of details on any movie I review. I try to give
you even less than you get on the prerelease trailers. But the 
second
reason is, I just didn't get this film and how to explain it to you.
First any time you have Jean-Claude Van Damme playing a designer you know
you're in for trouble. This film truly did not know where it was
going and had no direction whatsoever.
The special effects looked as if
they were playing with toys. I don't expect the quality of effects
that is present in Armageddon or a Godzilla, but I do expect
something better than a "B" movie. This is an action film and the
action scenes never get very amusing at all. Rob Schneider is never
given a chance to stretch his range with laughter and the film is all about
Van Damme. Even decent 
actors
like Lela Rochon and Paul Sorvino just seem lost in this film, almost as
if they were just there to collect their pay checks. It's unfortunate,
because I have liked some of the Van Damme films in the past simply because
they were fun. This however, was painful to watch and just plain
uncomfortable because of how bad it was.
Die hard Van Damme fans will, I think, even be a little disappointed in this effort. If not for Schneider, this film would get a worse grade than it does. Stay away from this one unless you are a die hard Van Damme fan and have seen every other film currently in theaters.
Grade: D-
Parents
Guide: This one got an R mainly for a large amount
of violence and language. I would warn parents slightly though that
part of it is not much worse than your basic Terminator-type movies.
However a better reason to dissuade your kids from seeing this is the fact
that it is truly a bad movie.