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Sorry, this movie sucks

Sick Product of a Sick System

Let's be realistic.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

If you're on the mooch for gore then this film has literally bucket loads of it. I cringed at one point when a guy fell face first onto a board of nails, and my wife was almost puking when some guy tried to strangle Ricky with his own intestines. It was also at this point that she asked me why I was making her watch the film.I've got to say, however, that there wasn't much story to the story of Ricky. He punches a hole in a guy's head and gets put in jail for it. In jail, he gets caught up fighting the warden, the deputy warden, and some heavy duty prisoners (one of which squashes a guy's head between his hands). Apart from a couple of flashbacks, that's all there is.I must be getting old, however, because although the gore is impressive, I was twiddling my thumbs waiting for the film to get onto the next battle. A bit more story would have done the trick I think. Something lacking here, for me at least. Not enough humour? Or story? Or characters to care about? Who knows? You'll probably want to see it anyway.

So many folks on here liken this film to the gore classic "Dead Alive" that it's kind of off balance. Sure, there's all sorts of blood and guts, but that's where it ends. Dead Alive is Zombies, Ricky Oh... Well, Ricky Oh is a man... Let's just say he's a man for his time.Obviously everyone reading the reviews knows what the hell this movie is about, so let's not try to over do it here. I'm just going to say a few choice tidbits about this fantastic film so you can just watch it. Because let's get real, if you're reading this, you obviously have some sort of interest. Well, let me just tell you now, WATCH THIS FRICKEN MOVIE. Hell, don't even watch it, go out and buy it, you won't have buyers remorse. Sure, if you like your movie all shiny and pretty like "Titanic" or "Driving Miss Daisy", then you won't like this (besides, what the hell are you doing reading these reviews anyways). BUT, if you love a good cheesy flick, then of course, you're not just going to like this, YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT. Ridiculously over the top, ridiculously violent, ridiculously insane and completely entertaining. Hell, a guy hides breath mints in his fake eye, if that's not enough for you. All this time spent reading reviews could be spent watching this fantastic film and laughing your ass off, so get to it. After you watch it once, grab a few friends and have a good ol' fashioned "Ricky Oh" Party and watch everyone's reaction. Trust me, even the friends you think will hate this one will probably end up loving you for introducing them to such a classic. Cinema just ain't the same without stuff like this.

This movie is simply super sadistic, super gore, super bloody yet super funny and even somewhat moralistic story. It's simply "a ride", brutal, sadistic, cruel, nationalistic, anti-drug, anti-capitalistic...Oh yes - and it has hero that makes Rambo look as a old man on retirement and X-Men as a bunch of elderly people feeding birds in the park. I have read some opinions that Western super heroes do suck somewhat. After seeing The Machine Girl and this movie I just have to agree that all these spider-bitten transsexuals so easily paralyzed with Kryptonite or whatever are derivative, pathetic and boring. All the super villains are weak and laughable as well, we have more nasty super villains in European Parliament.But in this movie - well, the villains are really different league and the fights and "punishments" from villains are so brutal in the beginning that you just wonder how they could possibly escalate towards the end. They COULD escalate and basically this is way rougher than Russian military movie. The most bizarre thing is that movie keeps its political contents and yet somewhat manages so be in a very bizarre way funny and laughable as well.There is somewhat seriously wrong and twisted in minds of Asian people for sure. I have never seen something so cruel, bizarre yet funny in Western cinema. Most recommended for those who can swallow such twisted fun!

This is another Category III (CAT III) movie, CAT III is a certificate given by the Hong Kong film censors to film that contains Excessive sexual content or extreme violence.This was the first CAT III that i saw, many people claims that this is the first CAT III movie that received this certificate only for the extreme violence (there is no minimal sexual content or nudity), but Men Behind the sun (the first CAT III movie) was rated CAT III for it's extreme brutality, yes, Men behind the sun contained a brief scene of nudity, but i don't think that the Hong Kong film censors scared them self for a brief view of a female breast.Anyway, Riki-oh is based on a manga, i still haven't read it anyway.The plot involves a boy called Riki that ends up in prison for "agression and manslaughter" (we will see many flashback of Riki's past). We discover that Riki have some Superhuman strength and he looks like that he wants do "justice" in the prison....but for this, he must confronts the gang of four that rules every wing of the prison ! Gore is NOT present in EVERY minute, but when the gore delivers, it's well made. Most of these gore scenes involve fights.This is probably the goriest martial arts movie ever made, even if there are not "smooth" and "fancy" martial arts moves, it's still a must see !