Home :: DVD :: Anime & Manga  

Action & Adventure
African American Cinema
Animation
Anime & Manga

Art House & International
Boxed Sets
Christian DVD
Classics
Comedy
Cult Movies
Documentary
Drama
Educational
Fitness & Yoga
Gay & Lesbian
Hong Kong Action
Horror
Independently Distributed
Kids & Family
Military & War
Music Video & Concerts
Musicals & Performing Arts
Mystery & Suspense
Romantic Comedies
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Special Interests
Sports
Television
Westerns
Riki-Oh - The Story of Ricky

Riki-Oh - The Story of Ricky

List Price: $29.95
Your Price: $26.96
Product Info Reviews

<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 .. 9 >>

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Ridiculously Bloody Kung Fu film
Review: This movies great, because it is ridiculous. So much blood and violence causes the viewer to change the way he sees life, existentially of course. Buy this movie, because it's educational and bloody.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: the best movie ever
Review: i laughed harder in this movie than I did in animal house and monty python combined. punching through a metal door with the door flapping afterwards, punching through a guys throat and pulling his hand through his mouth, cutting of the lower half of a guys face- that speaks oscar to me. the blood and guts is so unrealistic and the storyline so bad that it becomes the funniest movie ever made.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hilarious (if you can see past the ultra gore)
Review: I got this movie when it first came out on VHS. All I can say is that I couldn't stop laughing watching this masterpiece of stupidity. You get to see multiversitile Ricky in roles such as the master killer, super do-it-yourself surgeon, x-factor healer, musical genious, spiritual leader and much much more. Plus you get to see Ricky have flashbacks of his more effeminite times with his not-too-bright girlfriend.

When you think they couldn't top the previous gore/comedy scene, they prove you wrong and add another layer of icing. Special effects are horrible, directing is horrible, acting is disturbingly poor, plot doesn't even exist. Do not expect consistency or common logic, but do expect many twisted laughs. (Obviously this is only for adults!)

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Dont see this on a full stomach.
Review: I just got my copy of Riki-oh yesterday, and couldn't wait to see it. After such a build up about the movie I have to admit I was not that impressed. Yes it's funny, and yes it's gross, but I have seen much worse. Maybe I'm desensitized, but is the scene of Riki tying his arm tendons any more gross than the chick in Evil Dead biting off her own hand? I found Dead Alive much more gory, and as for weird, check out Wolfen Ninja with Pearl Cheung. Now that's a weird movie! Don't get me wrong this movie is worth watching, and adding to your collection (if u like this sort of stuff). I would recommend it. Also am I wrong or was that Kuo Chui in the role of "Andrew"? It looked just like him, but I didn't see his name in the credits. Why is the movie called Riki-oh when the characters name is Riki-ho? And why was one of the characters in the prison played by a woman? Want laughs? Check out the death of Rikis girlfriend, and the obnoxious warden's son who acts like a toddler. How exactly does Riki stop bullets with his bare chest? Why is he so strong? If he grew up in an orphanage how does he even know who his uncle is? Could the assistant wardens hook for a hand be any bigger? What are those pills he keeps hidden in his fake eyeball? Am I trying to make too much sense out of a senseless movie? No, just kidding around. Four stars check this one out.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The greatest Kung-Fu movie ever?
Review: Do you think that if you've seen one Kung-Fu movie, you've seen them all? Get this movie and think otherwise! Just when you think you have seen the most absurd scene in this movie, another, more absurd thing happens! This is moronic at times, no wait, it's moronic at ALL times, filled with senseless gore, bizarre action scenes, and utterly retarded dialogue. I know I can only rate this at 5 stars,. but it deserves either zero or 1000, depending on your sense of humor. If movies can have sex, and a Kung-Fu movie, a Troma movie, and Dead Alive had a gang bang, this insane movie would be the hideous spawn!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: This movie is AMAZING!
Review: What else can I say? This is truly a one-of-a-kind movie...
It's one of those movies where, right after you see it, you end-up showing it to as many people as possible... it's so outragous and just downright fun.
The DVD doesn't offer much in the way of extras (hence the four-star rating), but hey-- the exploding heads are clearer than ever...!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Oh oh OH, Ricky!
Review: What more can one say except that this is a movie you MUST have in your collection!!! It will horrify your parents! Your pets will hide under the couch! Friends will think you are twisted and super-cool! "The Story of Ricky" is Hong Kong's answer to The "Evil Dead" Trilogy: over the top, disgusting and totally hilarious.

Ricky is sent to prison for killing the thugs who kidnapped his girlfriend after she witnessed a drug deal and jumped off a roof to escape said thugs. Granted, it was lemming behavior (and somehow not as poignant as Isaac falling to his roof-induced death in "SMilla's Sense of Snow"), but this is Hong Kong Cinema and Ricky is HUGE and needs revenge.

So.. jail.

It's not "Cool Hand Luke" per se but there is a heirarchy and I KNOW one fo the wardens HAD to have said, "Son, what we got here is a failure to communicate" but it never made it to the subtitles. Ricky navigates the heirarchy by eliminating the Wing Bosses, using wood lathes in rhinoplasty, doing surgery on himself, being strangled by people's intestines (while they are still attatched to them. Was this a homage to "The Reanimator"? Could be!) all the while befriending tongueless mutes and playing Enya-like music on blades of grass.

Ricky is not only HUGE but he's a Sensitive New Age Guy, too. A SNAG who kicks butt.

I don't have enough space to delve into the homoerotic scenery and undertones, but it ranks with "Midnight Express". Trust me.

In conclusion, "The Story of Ricky".. buy it. It's a wonderful and horribly horribly horribly violent movie that brings a smile to my face and song to my heart.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Fake Blood at it's Best.
Review: Does the sight of an exploding head make you laugh or cry? Would you be upset if a character who's arm is cut ties his own ligaments together? Does a villian chopping a guys face in half upset you? Well...I don't want to give too much away. I suppose there is a plot in this movie somewhere. I think Riki's girlfriend is killed by prison herion dealers, I think. It's not really important. A true splatterfest for the whole family to enjoy.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: riki oh. the pinnacle of filmmaking.
Review: I am going to keep this simple. Riki Oh is the best movie I have ever seen. Not because of its story or its acting, but just because of the sheer hilarity of this film. I mean, how can you not like a movie with so many faults and so many classic lines. Maybe its just me but I find amusement in watching people punch throw flesh and bone, and even concrete. This movie is the source for many inside jokes between myself and my friends who have watched it with me. I have yet, to this date seen a better movie.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Riki-Oh I just wasted 25 bucks!
Review: I had high hopes for this film--based on the reviews I read here. I'm a big fan of kung-fu and silly horror films like Evil Dead. I thought this movie would be the best of both worlds. WRONG! This is not a kung-fu movie, it's just a gore film. The "fight" scenes don't even last 30 seconds. Riki simply makes one attack and punches through the bad guys' chest or head. Buy this only if you're a fan of Dead Alive, not if you're into kung-fu.


<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 .. 9 >>

© 2004, ReviewFocus or its affiliates