Based on a manga, this Hongkong film has ridiculous script, terrible acting, and flawed effects. Altogether, these make a perfect cult classic which is the status quo of this piece of work. The director has lots of guts (pun intended) to make this film works in an unconventional way (not necessarily a good thing). Reminisce of Prison on Fire, the movie is set in a not-so-distant future where prison has become a privatized business and anything goes inside the facility. By anything, I mean ANYTHING. Inmates getting tortured for not rolling out red carpet properly or asking for more food, growing poppy fields, killing innocent bystanders (dog included). No one’s spared, everyone’s get a can of ass-whooping in the end, except of course Riki-Oh. With all these insanities, one thing for sure, you can’t kill Ricky. Though lacking in emotions, short of super power this guy is not.

It’s an adaptation which stays very close to the actual illustrated version. Hence, plot comes across as wacky and has many seemingly random characters. The director seems to be directing it right out of the manga which makes this movie more unconventional for lack of a better term.

Synopsis

A young man with superhuman strength is incarcerated at a prison run by corrupt officials and seeks to use his martial arts to clean up the system. (IMDB)