"RICKY-OH: THE STORY OF RICKY"

(1991)

Ricky was a young boy, he had a heart of stone...

The story of Ricky is a prison drama in the same vein as Shawshank Redemption, Lock Up, American Me, Weeds and Blood in Blood out, starring Lee from the popular video game Tekken.

The year is 2001, and the Chinese (or some other Asian country's) prison system is run by evil corporations. We first meet our hero, Ricky, as he passes through a metal detector while being checked in. The alarms on the metal detector go off and we instantly know that this is only the beginning of the troubles that lie ahead for Ricky.

We are introduced to the gang element of the prison almost immediately. The gangs are a ruthless bunch who is on the prison warden's pay roll to help the guards. The gangs have free reign of the prison, as we see in the second scene of the movie when they attack an old man in the shower... but Ricky is there to help, of course, and is instrumental in beating said gang by tripping the leader and having him lose an eye.

For retaliation the gang sends one of its biggest fighters after Ricky in the showers, where Ricky makes his stand.

This activity does not bode well for the assistant warden (for the kung-fu movie nerd it is a coked up Bolo Yung) and his vast collection of pornography, so he sends other gang members to get Rick, and gives them any weapons their hearts desire to do so.

Ricky cuts through them like a hot knife through butter, and at a climactic crucifixion scene, we are introduced to the Big Four (Demi Moore, The Big Show, Gilbert Gotfried, and some Asian dude) - the top leaders of the prison's gangs. But Ricky prevails, once again, and others incur their wrath.

Later, in a series of flashbacks, we learn more about Ricky and why he was in prison. Apparently his girlfriend saw some people using heroin and then decided to kill herself over it. Distraught, Ricky kills the first man he sees and ends up in the can.

Well, as circumstance would have it, it just so happens that the warden (played by Louis Farrakhan) grows poppies for distribution, so Ricky sets the flowers on fire and is forced to chew razor blades as punishment.

Surviving this torture, Ricky is put through a series of tests and battles, leading up to the climactic final confrontation where we see the warden for the monster he TRULY is:

I don’t want to give away the ending of this movie, but I am sure you will enjoy it.

It is rated R for mild violence...