

Knock Off holds an 8% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 39 reviews. From there it grossed a total of $10.3 million in US ticket sales. It took the 4th spot and grossed in $5,516,2311 at 1800 theaters, at an average of $3,064 for the weekend. Knock Off opened in the United States on September 4, 1998. The film was announced at the 1997 American Film Market. Michael Fitzgerald Wong as Detective Han.Tommy carelessly activates the detonator, destroying the building Harry is in, in the distance. In a distant room, Harry, still alive, is planting nanobombs on a toy. Two hours later, Tommy and Marcus talk in a bar. They find the detonator in the water and take it. Karen plants a handful of the nanobombs on Harry's boat as well, which explodes. Marcus and the detective board the barge and fight through all of the Russians, eventually escaping just before Harry detonates it. Tommy is relieved to see Harry on board, but Harry reveals he is a double agent intending to ransom companies for not detonating the nanobombs they have been secretly planting in manufactured goods all over the world. He and the Hong Kong detective from the opening scene race to the cargo ship where Karen and Tommy are being held. He realizes the jean studs are the nanobombs and checks the computer for the shipping manifest. While Marcus changes, the Russians kidnap Karen and Tommy, and Marcus finds a bomb detector in Karen's things. After a fight, she reveals she's CIA as well, and the three team up.
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After Marcus leaves, the Buddha explodes, and Marcus races to the office to save Tommy. At the office, she handcuffs Tommy and prepares to question him. There, the security footage reveals Karen was in the warehouse just before they were. Marcus kidnaps Skinny and takes him back to the CIA base in the Buddha. Tommy obtains security footage on the way out. Tommy and Marcus have to fight their way out of the building. He opens a safe to give them proof, but it explodes, killing him. Eddie fingers Skinny as the counterfeiter he found out they had bombs in the merchandise and tried to have it dumped in the ocean before the Russians found them. Believing Eddie to be in on it, they go to see him. Tommy's boss, Harry Johansson determines they are powerful "nanobombs" at their base inside a Buddha statue.
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Marcus gets on top of it and when it ultimately crashes they find it full of tiny discs. That night, before they arrive at the warehouse, a truck bursts out. He is a CIA agent sent to discover the counterfeiters who used Marcus, "the king of knock offs," as his cover. When Tommy gets kidnapped at a restaurant, Marcus follows him and finds him talking to his CIA handlers. Meanwhile, the Russian bosses kill the agents who failed to reclaim the dolls and get tipped off by Skinny that V-Six is onto them and is going to their warehouse.
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She agrees to let it go if they go to the warehouse that switched the fake jeans and identify who did it. Ultimately, they kill the fake Eddie and Hong Kong police arrest Marcus and Tommy, but release them without charges.īack at their office, an executive from V-Six, Karen Lee claims a shipment of jeans was counterfeit and Marcus and Tommy are responsible for over $5 million of losses. The body double gets kidnapped by Russian agents (looking for Eddie) and Marcus gives chase. Marcus and Tommy then participate in a rickshaw race during which Marcus' adopted brother and friend Eddie cheats to win by switching with a body double. His partner, Marcus Ray shows up late after inspecting a warehouse of their goods where he sees several knock-offs, including the exploding dolls, peddled by a Hong Kong gangster, Skinny. Some Russian agents and a Hong Kong detective pursuing them survive.ĭowntown, Tommy Hendricks is arranging a fashion show for "V-Six" Jeans. They accidentally open the crate and baby dolls float to the surface before being detonated. Russian agents searching for something underwater find a crate as Hong Kong police close in.
