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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 focuses on the title character, Ricky-Oh, a young martial artist who gets himself put in prison for… Some reason or other (the movie is kind of vague on this point, as well as many others). Within the prison walls, he must face the members and leaders of four gangs that run the inmates, each one the master of their own strange style of Kung Fu.

The movie is nothing if not violent, but the violence is so absurd that it’s not really offensive or disturbing so much as it is funny and weird. It reaches Loony Toons proportions. In one fight scene, a badguy rips out his own intestine to strangle Ricky with, immediately after Ricky, having received a slash across a major artery, pulls the vein out and ties it in a knot.

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 fight scene climaxes with the enemy transforming into a twelve foot tall monster… Or rather, a stuntman covered in really, really awful makeup and costume. It’s really quite funny. He “meats” his end when he comes face to face with a beef grinder, and not for one second do you believe what you’re seeing onscreen.

The story actually has a heart, believe it or not, under all the violence and silliness. It’s about human dignity and empathy, it’s about fighting for your rights as an individual and treating other human beings with respect… It’s also about throwing guys into meat grinders because they’re transforming into giant monsters and trying to eat you, but the heart of the movie is really that it’s all about the human dignity that Ricky-Oh fights so aggressively for.

The movie is miles over the top. It doesn’t just go too far, it goes too far on a bullet train and then keeps going until it can’t even see “Too Far” in the rear view mirror anymore. By the end of the film, it’s gotten on board a space shuttle and taken off into outer space to the point that it’s not even on the same planet as “Too Far” anymore.

Still, the ending is actually surprisingly uplifting and positive as Ricky liberates his fellow inmates from under the iron fist of the violent, abusive warden and all of his cronies. In a movie full of surprises, the biggest surprise of all is that you’ll find yourself caring about the characters, not just wondering who’s gonna get kicked in the butt with their own severed foot next.

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