Immortal "so bad it’s good" classic, “The Story of Ricky” is a Hong Kong live-action film based on the Japanese manga “Riki-Oh”. These low-budget films usually have very little in common with the source material, but it looks like Lam Nai-choi did his best to depict the same events and stay true to the over-the-top gore and violence of the original. Many iconic scenes can be found in the manga and anime as they are. A shitty film based on a shitty manga? You choose.

Comparisons with the original aside, “The Story of Ricky” could have been just one out of many Hong Kong cheap action flicks from the ‘90s if it wasn’t for the absolutely tasteless splatstick humor that takes us back to the horror B-movies of the ‘80s. In other words, two of my favorite guilty pleasures combined into a single film. The awful acting, stiff fight choreographies, and elementary school essay-level writing can only be points in favor in this case.

My only complaint is that it drags a little too much in the second half, with Ricky getting caught and escaping every five minutes even when he could just break his chains as he kept doing for the whole first half.