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Ricky-Oh! the Story of Ricky, is one of the all time strangest, weirdest, most insane and most unpredictable action films ever made. It was based on the Korean comic book series of the same name and quickly went on to become a cult legend. The internet has really boosted its visibility, as people have cut out their favorite scenes and posted them on message boards. The movie goes on any list of must download internet movies simply because it’s so darn bizarre and weird.
The movie follows Ricky, a young martial artist who, for some reason or other that the film isn’t too clear on, winds up in prison. Herein he must fight his way through the four gang leaders who run the prison, each one with their own violent, weird form of martial art.
The thing about the movie is… It’s incredibly violent. But it’s so incredibly over the top, so bizarre in its violence, that it feels at times nightmarish, and at other times… More cartoony, like Loony Toons violence. To give an example while trying not to spoil too much, there’s a scene where Ricky is fighting one of the gang leaders and, upon realizing he’s been beat, the gang leader produces a knife and digs it into his own abdomen, as if to commit seppuku… But then he rips his stomach open, pulls out his lower intestine, and uses it to strangle Ricky!
You’ll really be too busy laughing at the onscreen violence to even other being disturbed, so you can’t quite say that it’s “not for the easily nauseated”, because it’s just too darn Loony Toons to gross you out.
Another sequence has the warden of the prison transforming into a twelve foot tall monster, built out of ridiculously bad makeup and special effects. He “meats” his demise on the business end of a beef grinder. It’s violent, but it’s so ridiculous and funny in its violence that it never feels real. It always feel like silly makeup and special effects, as if the actors and stuntmen are just having some fun with this stuff.
The story actually, surprisingly, has a heart under all this surreal violence. The real story of the film revolves around Ricky trying to fight for freedom and dignity for all of his fellow inmates, who are constantly harassed and bullied by the warden and his spoiled rotten man-child son. It’s about humanity, empathy and understanding more so than it is about violence.
Of course, the violence and weirdness is why it’s a big cult hit, but that’s sort of its angle: Use something silly to get everyone’s attention and then teach them something about life while they’re actually listening to you.
And yet, the ending is somehow upbeat and optimistic. It’s weird, fun, funny, the violence only ever feels silly, not truly violent, and the result is an all time classic of weird action.
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