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Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

kxyang This movie is very faithful to the manga and is one of the best adaptations out there. People may be put off by the cheap look of the film but the core story is great.+) Very violent fight scenes and over the top moments that you will remember for a long long time. These include Ricky gutting an overweight man with his bare fist, squeezing a man's hands so hard they crumple, slapping a man in the back of the head so hard his eyeball flies out, punching the top of a man's head off, punch a man on the side of the head so hard that the force causes the other side of his head to explode, and fighting against a man who suddenly transforms into an ugly "Hulk" like creature and killing him by grinding him into hamburger meat. Let's not forget the famous head smash scene and the "gut" choke scene as well.+)The core story is well written+)Fan is great as Ricky~The English dub is very bad and the effects are cheap

Leofwine_draca A hilarious Asian live-action manga movie, based on a popular Japanese comic book (looking suspiciously similar to the classic Fist of the North Star), lauded for its total commitment to visceral violence and insanity. THE STORY OF RICKY is darned near perfect for a comic-book-turned-movie, an action-packed and visually arresting display of superhuman skills, bad guys versus good guys, and plenty of bizarre dream-like situations. The plot is wafer thin and needs to be so. Basically it involves our hero Ricky (the Bruce Lee-alike who smashes and crashes his way throughout the movie) getting sent to prison after murdering the drug dealer who caused the death of his girlfriend. After standing up for himself and the fellow prisoners, Ricky is then continuously beaten and tortured until the prison riot that marks the film's close.Sure there are plenty of holes and negative aspects of this film. Taken as a serious work of art, it just doesn't hang together. The dialogue is dumb on purpose and the acting hardly sets the screen alight, but then it doesn't need to. The storyline makes no sense whatsoever if you think about it at all. If Ricky has all these powers why doesn't he just escape at the start instead of letting himself getting chained up and the like? Instead, THE STORY OF RICKY is happy to display one incredible scene of superhuman feat after another. Ricky is buried alive, blinded with crushed glass, squashed under a ceiling, and stuck fast with cement. He has the tendons severed in his arm but manages to knot them back together and return fighting. He endures a gob full of razor blades and some of the hardest beatings you will ever see. This is nothing in comparison to what he does to the enemy, though.Bad guys are skinned, crushed, and have limbs literally torn from their bodies. Ricky's punches have the power to break bones and knock heads off entirely. He punches through stomachs, knocks out eyeballs, and shoves the bad guys into meat grinders. It's all amazing stuff that will have you glued to the screen. The special effects are tacky but colourful in much the same way as BRAINDEAD; you'll never be disturbed or horrified for an instant as instead the film is infused with that particular Asian humour that makes light of the darkest situations.Although BRAINDEAD wins hands down due to the non-stop barrage of visceral carnage (here, you have to wait for the plot to catch up between each set-piece), THE STORY OF RICKY still deserves major mention for some of the truly outrageous gob-smacking scenes of brutality and over-the-top mayhem. The highlight has gotta be when a bad guy slashes open his own stomach in order to strangle Ricky with his intestines. Or perhaps the "did I dream that?" finale in which a villain turns into a Hulk-like monster for a splattery showdown with our God-like hero. There's stuff here you won't see anywhere else, which is why I wholeheartedly recommend this film for gore fans everywhere.

thegamergare I gotta say, the best way to put this movie is that it's Evil Dead 2 as a comic book movie with martial arts, Kill Bill villains and the blood effects from Braindead. Does that sound awesome? Of course it does!I think the best way to put this is that it's the best homage of manga currently made in live action. It's a little cheesy and silly, but it adds to the movie for the same reason it adds to The Evil Dead. And I did watch this with the terrible English dub and I don't know how I would have felt watching it with subs, but the terrible dub adds to the atmosphere this movie is trying to make, The Evil Dead in manga form. This movie just leaves you with a weird feeling, there's a final fight but there's not really and ending, it just kinda stops but again, it adds to the atmosphere. After watching this movie, I felt like I had read 50 mangas in one sitting, it was incredible.There was so many memorable characters, I'm only going to mention the main 3 in my opinion. Siu-Wong Fan plays Riki-Oh Saiga or Ricky, a young adult with superhuman strength who fights to protect himself and his girlfriend from street crime. You could almost call it a superhero movie, although you never see him fight street crime, you just see him on the prison bus going to jail for manslaughter. The next character is Mei Sheng Fan plays the Assistant Warden who has a hook for a hand. But it had to hooks that he can move around and he doesn't just use it as a weapon but as a fork too! I'm not going to lie, I love this guy, he kind of holds the movie together as Ricky doesn't really talk and the Warden talks in small sentences and then stays silent until he's replying to something, the Assistant Warden is really the only one that talks and he's kind of in the background when the warden finally shows up, but he holds the movie together for a bit and he definitely works. The final character is Ka-Kui Ho as Warden Sugiyama and he is a perfect villain for this movie. He's a sick bastard with an annoying as hell son. (SPOILERS) * And he is basically the hulk. Really, he is. He turns into a near unstoppable monster whenever he gets really angry or paranoid or something. He takes pills to stop it from happening when he doesn't want it to, so I'm pretty sure he doesn't have control over it, I just don't know what causes him to become it. Is it anger? Being upset? Worried? Upset? Showing high levels of emotion? Is it timed to when he needs to take his pills? I honestly don't know, but just like the Crow's powers in The Crow, we really don't need to know. * (SPOILERS OVER)The plot is Ricky is caught of manslaughter for fighting crime. It's a future dystopia and crime has run amok so Ricky with his powers tries to fight it, kinda like a superhero! I honestly could see if someone considered this a superhero movie as it is based off comic source material. Anyways, Ricky gets sent to prison and tries to fight crime there and after a series of events ends up freeing everyone. It sounds like I'm leaving stuff out and technically I am, but that is really the best summary I can give without going into too much detail.There's no explanation for a lot of stuff, but its forgiven because thats not whats important, whats important is what you're looking at on the screen when watching it, the story it's telling you at that time, not the story before it or after it, the story then. And I really can't help but just love these characters, like I said before, they're all really good and I can still remember a lot of funny over the top moments that still shock people today. My god, is there a lot of blood, if you get squeamish over blood in something like Die Hard or Robocop, this movie is not for you.Story of Ricky is great and definitely for a specific group of people. If you liked Braindead, I can't see anyone not having a blast watching this.Score: 7.6

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!