Knock Off (1998)
Action, Crime, Thriller • 1h 31m
Director: Tsui Hark
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rob Schneider, Lela Rochon, Paul Sorvino, Michael Wong, Carman Lee Yeuk-Tung, Wyman Wong Wai-Man, Glen Chin, Moses Chan Ho, Lynne Langdon, Mark Houghton, Ray Nicholas, Jeff Wolfe, Michael Miller, Steve Brettingham, Kim Maree Penn, Dennis Chan Kwok-San, Jude Poyer, Mars, Duane Davis, Peter Nelson, Joseph Chi Chiong Chavez, Johnny Cheung Wa, Chan Sek, Rocky Lai Keung-Ken, Ernest Mauser, Ted John Michael Lundell, Kam Loi-Kwan
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Overview
A fashion designer and his CIA agent business partner must join forces to stop a group of terrorists from smuggling explosives in counterfeit jeans during the handover of Hong Kong.
Director: Jean Vigo
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Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti & Charles Crichton & Basil Dearden & Robert Hamer
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
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France Rimini 4K Blu-ray see caps vs Artificial Eye Blu-ray
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(Indicator 4K Blu-ray, based on review)
Director: Otakar Vávra
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Deaf Crocodile 4K Blu-ray see nic review
Restored: Deaf Crocodile 4K Blu-ray
Unrestored: Czech PAL DVD
Preferences will vary, the restored track sounds good, but not necessarily faithful to the original elements.
Director: Anthony Mann
Criterion 4K Blu-ray, Universal 2008 DVD
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2008 Universal DVD mono
The mono on the Criterion is severely filtered resulting in it sounding incredibly muffled. It is nearly as filtered as the 2003 original Universal DVD which had extreme filtering and sounds horribly thin. The 2008 DVD remaster and original Laserdisc analog mastering are mostly left alone. The original LD master is from a worn element but otherwise sounds very natural. The 2008 DVD is the highest quality version we have without the heavy filtering and the defects of the LD master. It isn't perfect but easily the best of the main four sources by a dramatic margin.
The existing 4K SDR restoration looks excellent, but the Criterion extras are limited and disappointing. The classic Stewart interview commentary from the LD is ported over but given a new mastering. Compared to past releases it has been very slightly noise reduced.
Director: Basil Dearden
Excellent 4K master and encode, except for opticals grain is very fine, grading is beautifully silvery and luminous, nice HDR re-grade by Fidelity in Motion
Director: Tsui Hark
UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray or Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray or Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray
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There is a newer 4K restoration by L’Immagine Ritrovata, which should be of better scan quality. The 4K restoration used on all current 4K disc releases stems from a low-quality Cintel scanner. The newer restoration has yet to be released on home video.
Director: Tsui Hark
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Director: Deran Sarafian
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MVD 4K Blu-ray beautiful remaster but with frame rate skips (encoding error)
Director: Martin Scorsese
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MVD 4K Blu-ray see caps but it has the encoding error with the dropped frames
Director: Robert De Niro
Director: Sheldon Lettich
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