Ricky-Oh, The Story Of Ricky, is without a doubt one of the strangest, weirdest and most surreal films ever created. It is really just plain nuts. It’s hard to believe that some crazy filmmakers even went out there with this idea and said “Yeah let’s make this movie instead of just joking around about it!” It was based on the equally surreal comic book by the same title. The resulting movie belongs on the list of top cult download internet movies. It’s funny, surprising, shocking and ridiculous, and whether or not you wind up enjoying it, you’ll certainly never forget it.
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 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 could be grossed out by this scene, but you’ll probably be too busy laughing and scratching your head to really be shocked or disturbed, and this isn’t even the most bizarre scene of the film.
A later fight scene has a villain transforming into a giant monster. By giant monster, we really mean “A stuntman in a really, really, really bad costume”. You can practically see the zipper on the back of this thing. In another movie, the fakeness of the special effects might have been a problem. In Ricky-Oh, it’s a big part of the charm.
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.
But in the end, the real appeal is the strangeness of it, the bizarre violence, just how far over the top it goes. It doesn’t go too far, it goes way past “too far”, it boards a shuttle and flies off planet from “way too far”. In the end, this is why the movie is a cult legend in the pantheon of strange action films.
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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