Tsui Hark is often called the Steven Spielberg of Asia, a reputation built on beloved films like the Once Upon a Time in China series, Peking Opera Blues, and Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame. His shadow looms so large in Hong Kong cinema that it’s easy to forget he briefly tried his hand in Hollywood, teaming with Jean-Claude Van Damme for Double Team in 1997 before doubling down with this frankly pretty lackluster follow-up. MVD Rewind Collection’s new 4K UHD makes the strongest possible case for what is, for a certain demographic, a definite guilty pleasure.

Van Damme (The Last Mercenary) plays Marcus Ray, a Hong Kong fashion designer who deals in high-end counterfeit goods. His business partner Tommy Hendricks (Rob Schneider, Leo) turns out to be an undercover CIA agent investigating the black market. When they discover that explosive micro-bombs are being hidden inside counterfeit products — jean studs, baby dolls, you name it — Marcus gets dragged into a conspiracy involving Russian agents, corrupt FBI officials, and a plot to ransom the entire global manufacturing supply chain. All of this unfolds during the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to China, a fascinating real-world backdrop that the film acknowledges and then almost completely ignores.

Screenwriter Steven E. de Souza, whose credits include 48 Hrs., Die Hard, and The Running Man, freely admitted in interviews included with this release that by the 1990s he’d become so accustomed to other writers borrowing his ideas that he essentially started recycling his own. That candor adds an unintended layer of irony to a film literally titled Knock Off. De Souza earned Golden Raspberry Awards for Hudson Hawk and The Flintstones, which perhaps calibrates expectations for this one appropriately. The film holds a 10% on Rotten Tomatoes and earned a D+ CinemaScore, so we’re not dealing with lost treasure here.

What the film does have going for it is Hark’s fluid visual craftsmanship. Even working with thin material, his camera is restless and inventive, and several action sequences have a genuine kinetic charge. There are completely bonkers moments — exploding dolls floating in the ocean, a rickshaw race through Hong Kong streets — that at least keep things propulsive. The late, great, Paul Sorvino (The Stuff) shows up as an FBI boss with a completely unsurprising late-film reveal, and Schneider is doing whatever Rob Schneider does, which your mileage on will vary considerably.

MVD Rewind’s 4K disc presents the film from a 16-bit scan of the original camera negative in its original 2.35:1 aspect ratio with HDR grading. The image is clean and detailed, with the Hong Kong locations looking sharp. The extras are solid: an archival commentary from action cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema that’s lively throughout and quite entertaining, a new 40-minute interview with de Souza, an archival de Souza conversation, a new interview with producer Moshe Diamant, an archival making-of featurette, and the original trailer. The release also includes a collectible mini-poster and reversible cover art — a nice physical media touch that MVD Rewind almost always includes in their releases.

Knock Off is cornball entertainment that can’t be taken seriously at face value, let alone anything deeper. But Hark’s visual instincts, de Souza’s disarmingly honest interviews, and MVD’s loaded disc plus accompanying swag make this a surprisingly worthwhile pickup for action completists and the Van Damme faithful.