Variety by Joe Leydon

Working from a formulaic script by Steven E. De Souza, Hark employs a variety of visual stratagems to keep the action fast and flashy.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

Van Damme and his cronies (including Lela Rochon, Paul Sorvino, and, for no immediately graspable reason, Rob Schneider as Van Damme's rabbity sidekick) race, speed, shoot, chop, and zip through scenes of such festive mayhem, plot is a clunky afterthought, like a lopsided fake Prada label on a cheap nylon knapsack.

The New York Times by Lawrence Van Gelder

Knock Off runs breathlessly over land and water in familiar comic book fashion, offering more action than sense and next to nothing in the way of suspense, humor or romance.

Austin Chronicle by Russell Smith

In essence, the whole Knock Off experience can be summed up neatly in four words: loud, stupid, blurry, frenetic.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Hong Kong action pioneer Tsui Hark is in high form here, tricking out the bare-bones story with disorienting camera angles, trick photography and virtuoso action sequences.

San Francisco Examiner

An amusement park special, screaming from start to finish with no brakes, no plot and no acting to speak of.

San Francisco Chronicle by Bob Graham

The ridiculous complications might have worked if there had been an awareness of how absurd they are.

L.A. Weekly by Ernest Hardy

A stunningly lethargic, uninvolving piece of crap.

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

It's amazing how boring an action movie can be when there's absolutely no point to all of the sound and fury.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

The plot is as incomprehensible as the dubbing and many of the special effects are neither special nor effective.