Steineded How sad is this?

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

julesjambeatles "The Story of Ricky" is one of those so-bad-it's-good movies. It is enjoyable to watch, with terrible effects, terrible writing, and terrible acting. Watch this if you want to see people punching through each other's stomachs and a person who keeps mints in his glass eye. This should be watched for entertainment purposes only, it's not a work of art whatsoever.

hellraiser7 Live action adaptations of manga and anime have always been sort of a hit or miss affair with me, but this film is a hit a very powerful hit because it was one of those rare adaptations that actually work.This is one of my favorite films of all time. I really like the story, which is a simple story which is common in most shonen manga, but most importantly it works because it's straight to the point no complicated nonsense to make things come to a painfully screeching halt.I really like the protagonist Ricky, the actor Fan Siu Wong I thought was really solid and cast perfectly, he physically fits the role he really looks like the character straight out of the manga. And he's a good martial artist, it's a shame this guy didn't become a big martial arts star I thought he had potential. But anyway, Ricky is a protagonist that is sympathetic, he's a good natured man despite breaking the law but the people he killed weren't innocent as we see in a flashback they killed his significant other for no good reason. He does respect the law and was willing to pay the price. And he's not a man looking for trouble but unfortunately he just went to the place that's a hive of trouble.The real bad guys are the Warren, Boss, and their cohorts that all are really evil and are all under the guise of the law. They just want to twist and manipulate the law for their own selfish benefits, while breaking anyone that abides and respects it. From the awful things this organization does it just all the more makes you want Ricky to punish them, make them pay the price.And the film/manga is almost kinda a Christian film as there is some Christian allegory in places like seeing someone hanging from a cross. As well as Ricky being buried alive and risen for seven days much as Jesus was entombed and then risen once more after the days were up. There are Christian themes like redemption and spiritual empowerment.However just like the manga were all really in this film for the fights and the effects with it which are great. This film was done on a modest to low budget but it used well and right because they put effort into their craft, once again an example another limited budget film that doesn't disappoint.Like with all shonen manga/anime, I love the idea of superhuman martial arts. Ricky's style is sort of one based on harnessing Chi and making that energy external and empower your body making both one. The way it's executes it's fun to think this could be a real martial arts technique that works.Some scenes and fights really look like the manga panels come to life, in fact they use most to all of the manga panels as their storyboard to make the film. The chirography and gore effects are all great and just seeing the execution of them made me wonder why the hell couldn't the two live action "Street Fighter" movies be as much fun as this; you see Ricky and his opponents use the superhuman power moves and techniques against each other which is just jaw dropping and awesome.Like in one battle you see Ricky fight against a big muscled guy and he literally punches though the guys fist. Another with some guy armed with knitting needles and steel wire, hitting Ricky at some points of the fight which I'll admit hurt me just seeing that steel wire wrap around his body, ouch.Though my favorite one on one battle in the film was with the boss that just Hulks up and he looks like the video game boss Abobo from "Double Dragon". The guy is a fraking beast, I won't say more about the fight you have to see it for yourself to believe it, but I wouldn't recommend eating anything while watching.Ricky Oh packs a punch.Rating: 4 stars

dworldeater Riki Oh is a Hong Kong production based on a Japanese manga (comic book ). The Story Of Ricky is also very unique as I've seen hundreds of HK movies and I 've not seen anything else quite like it from there. Riki Oh takes place in a dystopian future where prisons are privatised , completely corrupt and its prisoners are brutalized by their sadistic wardens . In a very over the top comic book style The Story Of Ricky combines splatter with kung fu. Ricky has superhuman strength and deadly martial arts skills . He has become a hero to his fellow lnmates by standing up to these thugs. Rated Category III (X or NC 17 equivalent ) for violence alone , Ricky punches through walls as well as human flesh. Bodies explode , people get disemboweled, impaled, crushed and thrown in the meatgrinder. This is much more for gore hounds than your average kung fu fan, however as a fan of both gore /horror and action /martial arts I enjoy this film. Check out the bad guy from Daughter Of Darkness 1and2 as the evil warden.

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!