Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Mark T. Based off the Japanese manga Riki-Oh, Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky is all types of absurd, overly serious, and unintentional hilarity. Riki-Oh Saiga (Siu- Wong Fan) is a young man of superhuman strength and fists as hard as steel. Recently incarcerated in a corporately owned prison in the future (in the year 2001), Riki is caught in a war between the guards and his newly made cell mates.This film was the first in Hong Kong to receive a certified category III rating for violence (equivalent to an NC-17 rating), and at the time it was considered extremely graphic and shocking. Presently, the over the top gore and ultra violence play out effectively as unintentional comedy. What sets this so-bad-it's-good movie from just a bad movie is that Riki- Oh provides many creative varieties to which the violence is delivered. From the rubber dummy gore doubles to a resourceful attack using entrails, this cult film has something for everyone!

Troy Schulz Picture if you will, a prison shower populated by men in black jumpsuits. Along comes a man, Ricky (Louis Fai-Siu Wong) to take a shower, as you do. When suddenly, a shirtless obese man named Zoro (Ho Chuang-Tao) charges up to Ricky and body slams him, threatening to turn him into mince meat and put him in a pie. Ricky then proceeds to punch a hole clean through Zoro's stomach, and the latter's blood and intestines flow forth. That is just one of many memorable scenes in this 1991 camp classic based on the manga of the same name. A film in which body parts come off just as easily as one might bend a straw. Eyeballs are loosened, limbs are lost, and heads are split, all in full view of the audience. Combine this with questionable acting and laughably bad dubbing ("HE"S A KILLER!") and you have a film that transcends the boundaries between good-and-bad and becomes its own thing.

Abyss47 What an experience this was.Based on a graphic novel that winded up spawning two OVA's, "Riki-Oh" remains one of the most violent movies ever produced, due to its extreme and inventive gore, which you witness pretty much every other minute during the entirety of the film. Whereas the gore in movies like "Dead Alive" simply grew tiresome after a while and failed to develop effectively throughout, Riki-Oh's gore is much more impressive and fulfilling, making one want to keep their eyes glued to the screen so they don't miss the next great gore effect. The gore effects are so astonishing at times that they really make you miss practical effects before most movie gore became all computerized. Being a martial arts film and all, "Riki-Oh" is beyond satisfying. The fight scenes are expertly choreographed, allowing all kinds of cool moves to surface that defy the laws of gravity, and they all flow seamlessly with the blood-soaked moments of open guts, arms, and flying body parts.The gist of the story is this: a young martial artist with superhuman strength named Riki-Oh Saiga is sent to a mysterious prison after killing the drug dealer who caused his girlfriend to commit suicide, and through his experience there, he suffers through many hellish challenges thrust upon him, as he meets his match in quite a few of the individuals there. In the process, he uncovers a secret that exposes the Warden and his minions as being corrupt, which gives him even more of an excuse to kick ass and escape the prison.Ngai Choi Lam made a very rough and brutal film here that certainly lingers in the memory long after it's over. It actually reminded me quite a bit of Jamaa Fanaka's classic "Penitentiary", which also had the look and feel of a documentary at times and had elements that set it apart from the average prison film. But, it's truly the attention to detail in the violence and action that puts "The Story of Ricky" above most of its peers. The acting is wonderfully over-the-top, the flashbacks showing Riki-Oh's past experiences with his girlfriend cheesy, and the soundtrack, while rather simple and barren, fits every scene well. Also be on the lookout for Yukari Oshima (well, how can you miss her in this?) as the big, bad transvestite member of the Gang of Four, who really hands Riki-Oh his ass at certain points. This still stands as one of Yukari Oshima's most memorable roles. I love how she played against type (well, a little bit) and overshadowed (not to mention dominated) nearly all the male characters."Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky" is not a perfect movie, but it doesn't need to be. It succeeds as ridiculous, broad entertainment and is basically a big "F You" to the Hollywood system. Always thrilling, sometimes sickening, but never boring.

peterpants66 This is one of those movies with a very unassuming title, it sounds as if it could be a lifetime channel film, or an after school special. The story of ricky or as we know it "Ricky oh" is a complex film that asks no quarter, and gives none, just the most extreme splatter violence in the brief history of the year 1991. It's a movie that is both stomach turning, and hysterical. Characteristics of prison life are well choreographed (drug dealing, mob rule, shower beatings) while hopelessly false in others (people being strangled with their own guts, a whole jaw dismembered post uppercut). But we don't go to the movies for love, we go for spastic bloody violence! Which this movie delivers on absolutely all levels, buckets of blood-check, holes being punched clean through stomach-check, heads being slap exploded-check. This movie has a huge cult following, and you have to give it credit for crossing over to the mainstream. If you watched "the daily show" before Jon Stewart hosted it you might remember Craig Kilborn and his vivacious "five questions" which featured a clip of the head explosion during the questionnaire. As arcade sensation Mortal Kombat was on it's rise a series of sequels emerged, the character JAX performed a fatality where he "clap" explodes his opponent's head! It's a hell of a way to go don't you think? One minute your in prison getting raped in the butt and the next thing you know some goon is crushing your head to the point of explosion. Vaya con dios my friends, bring a napkin!