Nothing like a Van Damme movie review to brighten your day. This one stars, of course, Jean-Claude (JC) Van Damme and Rob Schneider (who looks like a cross between Ron Jeremy and The Rock, two people, I'm guessing, Rob Schneider would love to be). JC is a fashion designer/runner/superhero/bad actor who, with his business partner/CIA agent buddy, Rob Schneider, is about to uncover a counterfeit clothing scheme with tiny bombs embedded in the clothes. Through the course of the movie, we encounter many other CIA agents in disguise (and bad guise in disguise as CIA agents). There's a big fight at the end, with JC kicking people and, well, doing his Van Damme thing. Good guys win. Bad guys die. The end.
Now, I like creative filmmakers. A big reason Run Lola Run was such a good movie was the cinematography and its perfect blend with the soundtrack. Knock Off also uses creative cinematography. Lots of it. Lots and lots and lots of it. None of it works. It's really irritating. It gives nothing to the story. It's distracting. It's annoying. I hated it. There ere bad slow-motion shots, weird POV shots, and other odd camera angles, etc. The whole movie was like this. I got the impression that, with this movie, the director was saying, "Look what I can do!" The end result does not look professional at all. It's like people putting lens flares on all their images to show that they're good at Photoshop (when they really aren't). It was bad. The whole movie was a vehicle for bad cinematography and crappy effects.
Watch for the guy getting hit with the missile.