When mild-mannered Ricky takes revenge on the drug pushing thugs who killed his girlfriend, he is sentenced to a maximum security prison. Within these walls lies a penitentiary like no other, run by a host of evil characters. A sadistic warden, his sniveling assistant, and the powerful Gang of Four all control the inmates through terror and brutal death! One of the most absurdly violent films ever made, this outrageous comic book of a movie is short on style but makes up for it in sheer audacity and excess. Brooding street kid Ricky Ho (Fan Siu Wang, playing the part of avenging angel with self-righteous earnestness) walks into the corrupt corporate prison system with superpowered martial arts skills and proceeds to punch his way through every bullying thug and sadistic guard who comes his way. Literally. His fist puts a gaping hole through the stomach of a giant sumo-wrestler-sized thug and the jaw of a pompadoured bully, and turns the skull of a pathetic guard into a bloody stump. As Ricky becomes a hero to the downtrodden prisoners, the assistant warden (who keeps breath mints in his removable glass eye) organizes the dreaded “gang of four,” the cell block gang leaders, to take Ricky down. Fat chance!
There’s nothing realistic about the bone-shattering, blood-splattering spectacle of crushed heads and snapped limbs, but the unrestrained display becomes so preposterously grotesque it hardly matters. You’ll be convinced that the “Oh” in Riki-Oh stands for “Oh my God, did I really see that?” Yes, Ricky really does tie a sliced tendon with his teeth, a thug cuts open his gut and uses his own intestines to strangle Ricky, and the warden (for no apparent reason) puffs himself up into a giant rubber ogre. Ricky’s curvy, feminine nemesis Rogan is played by Yukari Oshima, the butt-kicking, all-woman star of Angel and others. –Sean Axmaker
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March 23, 2010
#1
Story of Ricky is set in the near future when prisons are run like franchised companies. The main character, Riki, is sent to one of these prisons where his superior martial arts skills help keep him alive as he finds out that the prison is run by a corrupt warden and four powerful prisoners. Story of Ricky is a carnival of gore and martial arts which often becomes nauseating. The story is not the main event in this film, but rather the ultra violence is what keeps the audience’s attention. There is a feeble attempt to display Riki’s sensitive side, however, this becomes abundantly awkward. In addition, the poor cinematography, mise-en-scene, sound, acting, voice over, and music makes this a terrible cinematic experience.
March 24, 2010
#2
I enjoy the genre of over the top gore comedy but this one didn’t interest me. The story was very slow paced and uninteresting with some pretty unimaginative gore.
It was also ridiculous and not in a comedic way but a ‘that is stupid’ way. People are smashing through stone walls a lot.
The final ‘ultra’ gory finale really didn’t interest me either.
Watch Troma’s Terror Firmer or Citizen Toxie if you enjoy this type of movie. Or wait for Poultrygeist which will probably be pretty Tromariffic.
I don’t know when this was made but I would guess it has to be inspired by Troma. I appreciate the effort but it didn’t match let alone surpass Troma for gore comedy.
March 24, 2010
#3
I had high hopes for this film–based on the reviews I read here. I’m a big fan of kung-fu and silly horror films like Evil Dead. I thought this movie would be the best of both worlds. WRONG! This is not a kung-fu movie, it’s just a gore film. The “fight” scenes don’t even last 30 seconds. Riki simply makes one attack and punches through the bad guys’ chest or head. Buy this only if you’re a fan of Dead Alive, not if you’re into kung-fu.
March 24, 2010
#4
When you get thru watching this movie, you will say it was the stupidest movie ever. First I wanna say, this is not a kung fu flick. It has absolutely nothing to do with martial arts. I don’t know what to call it, but drink a few beers and watch it with your friends and the movie will be entertaining. Its actually pretty funny. At the end, Rikki Oh fights the chinese version of the incredible hulk or something. Don’t buy it if you’re starting a kung fu collection. Its more of a funny-horror type movie.
March 24, 2010
#5
Riki O is as said before one of the most over the top gory films ever, and yes it looks absoulutley unrealistic and fake as…eheh I’ll stop righ there. So lets get to it…
When mild mannered Ricky takes revenge on the drug pushing thugs who killed his Girlfriend he is sent to some maximum prison which is run by a host of evil characters including a sick sadistic warden, his assistant, and The Gang of Four which are a group of powerful fighters who control their fellow inmates. The rest you must see for yourself…
The story is not that great and is pretty average. I only got this cause a guy at some Anime Expo told me this is a great Gore film so I decided to give it a hoot. After watching this film I must say it in someways is one of the worst films but also in the way it’s some hardcore cult fun(I know that makes no sence but what the hey!) Ricki Oh as most people have said it is pretty wierd. And what makes this wierd is its oh-so funny dubbing especially Ricki who sounds just like Michael Jackson.
The movie is pretty gory. For one example he punchest through a guys throat and into his mouth causing some hole in it which causes the guy to ooz up blood and all that yadi yada. The film is pretty gory but If I had to range it from 1 to 10 I would give it a 2 cause it is soooooo unrealistic. Still this is a pretty violent movie I mean heads are blown off, body’s are broken, stomach are punched through causing massive blood and ect,Eyes are punched out of peoples faces, stomachs are cut open and intestince are used as weapons, Arms sliced off and there’s more I can tell you but I’m to lazy to type it down.
Overall I enjoyed Ricki Oh but the film had lots of flaws,horrible dubbing, fake Violence but is made up for that from its great yet stupid action and pretty average yet laughable story and dialoug and that’s why I give it a
3.0 out of 5…this film was sooooo clost to getting a 2.9…
If you can look past the really fake violence and funny dubbing you’ll enjoy this film just as much as I did.
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