The Worst Film Ever

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

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

"The Story of Ricky" is one of those so-bad-it's-good movies. It is enjoyable to watch, with terrible effects, terrible writing, and terrible acting. Watch this if you want to see people punching through each other's stomachs and a person who keeps mints in his glass eye. This should be watched for entertainment purposes only, it's not a work of art whatsoever.

This movie just didn't do it for me. I'm a fan of martial arts movies and loved Kung Fu Hustle and gore flicks like Bad Taste and Braindead and uberviolent fare like Ichi the Killer and The Raid 2. They at least had something akin to a plot and an attempt at character development that engaged the viewer and made you feel something towards the characters being beaten up, mangled, minced etc.With this movie, it just felt like something thrown together over the weekend whilst the scriptwriters were on holiday. Sure there were buckets of blood (although not that often) and a couple of shocking moments (sometimes laughably so) but overall this film was an utter mess from start to finish.

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.

Spoilers withinRicky (Fan Siu-Wong) is a super-powered martial artist in a corporate run prison (year 2001 A.D) where the warden (who turns into a giant demon) and assistant warden (who keeps mints in his eye and has a hook for a hand) mistreat the prisoners and deploy the use of the gang of 4 (A yakuza guy, a gay kung fu expert that runs opium, a giant guy that also has super strength and a blonde guy who uses a wire blades to pierce people) Suffice to say Ricky has his hands full and he endures numerous torture devices that includes being buried alive and forced to eat razorblades in what is one of the most enjoyable anime adaptations that really kicks ass mainly due to the level of carnage. The Story Of Ricky really must be seen to be believed, I mean you just can't take your eyes off what is going on. The best example is the opening in which a cannibal sumo threatens Ricky and Ricky then punches through his stomach and tears out his guts. Also where a guy guts himself and uses such to strangle his enemy and of course the meat grinder finale. The Story Of Ricky is also best recommended in dubbed format, the subtitles actually showcase that the acting isn't too bad, but in dubbed form it truly becomes that much goofier, as it's dubbed like a 70s kung fu effort and the dialog contains cornier jokes and really flat voice dubbing (once again it's dubbed like a kung fu movie) The movie then is hard to decipher on whether it is very bad or a masterpiece. Indeed I lean with the latter because you can tell this was made with a lot of love and ambition. In other words this is a must see, and a perfect reason why Hong Kong cinema is often times so interesting.* * *1/2 out of 4-(Very Good)