Ricky Oh is really one of the strangest, one of the most bizarre action films ever created. It is literally downright insane, and even after it's over, you'll have a hard time believing that some nuts really went out and made a movie like this. It was based on a Korean comic book series of the same name, and the result is a flick that belongs on any must download internet movies list just because it's so... Well, strange.

The movie follows Ricky, a young martial artist who, for some reason or other that the film isn't too clear on, winds up in prison. Herein he must fight his way through the four gang leaders who run the prison, each one with their own violent, weird form of martial art.

The movie is nothing if not violent, but the violence is so absurd that it's not really offensive or disturbing so much as it is funny and weird. It reaches Loony Toons proportions. In one fight scene, a badguy rips out his own intestine to strangle Ricky with, immediately after Ricky, having received a slash across a major artery, pulls the vein out and ties it in a knot.

You'll really be too busy laughing at the onscreen violence to even other being disturbed, so you can't quite say that it's "not for the easily nauseated", because it's just too darn Loony Toons to gross you out.

Another fight scene climaxes with the enemy transforming into a twelve foot tall monster... Or rather, a stuntman covered in really, really awful makeup and costume. It's really quite funny. He "meats" his end when he comes face to face with a beef grinder, and not for one second do you believe what you're seeing onscreen.

The story actually has a heart, believe it or not, under all the violence and silliness. It's about human dignity and empathy, it's about fighting for your rights as an individual and treating other human beings with respect... It's also about throwing guys into meat grinders because they're transforming into giant monsters and trying to eat you, but the heart of the movie is really that it's all about the human dignity that Ricky-Oh fights so aggressively for.

The movie is miles over the top. It doesn't just go too far, it goes too far on a bullet train and then keeps going until it can't even see "Too Far" in the rear view mirror anymore. By the end of the film, it's gotten on board a space shuttle and taken off into outer space to the point that it's not even on the same planet as "Too Far" anymore.

And still, the ending is actually somewhat uplifting and positive. In a movie full of surprises, the optimistic ending may well be the biggest surprise of all. That's really the appeal of the film. It grosses you out, it makes you laugh, it shows you some weird stuff you've never seen before and will never see again, and then somehow in the course of the events, it's actually gripped your heart and you actually care about the characters.