Ricki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)

Everyone enjoys a good action flick. I don’t care if you’re a gorehound that loves watching zombies tear the flesh off of nubile women while they try to get their freak on with the dumbass boyfriend that was hired to simply lay under the actress while she gyrates in every direction. Maybe you like when the totally undeserving waste of life jerk figures out that his life is meaningless without the simple, small-town girl, that he just bailed on for a night of anal with the hookers down the street. In either case, you enjoy action films once and a while. That brings us to the topic of this review, Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky. That’s right. The film’s so badass that they used the main character’s name twice in the title (thanks Edgar Wright for pointing that out). And, while the title may not exactly let the audience know what they’re in for, I can tell you that once you’ve seen Ricki-Oh, you’ll never be the same.

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Tony Jaa Kicks Huge Amounts Of Ass In The Ong Bak 2 Trailer

A sequel in name only to 2003’s Thai action film Ong Bak, Ong Bak 2 tells the story of a young man, Tony Jaa (The Protector, Ong Bak), rescued by martial arts masters all with different backgrounds who then train him to blend all the styles together. Read more for the trailer and the other two new posters.

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Silent Rage (1982)

“The king of martial arts versus a bionic killing machine!”

 

“In the hospital of a small town, three doctors experiment on a man called John Kirby. As a result, John becomes a mute maniacal murderer with the ability to heal automatically every time he gets injured, no matter how bad it is. When he starts killing everyone he crosses, the town’s sheriff goes after him; but how can he stop someone who can’t die, or even get hurt?”  

 

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Chocolate (2008) – KamuiX

It seems as if Thailand is now the place to go for martial arts films featuring shockingly realistic fighting. This really came to the attention of the world at large with Ong-Bak, a film with fight scenes so intense that the legitimacy of them is still debated today. While I found the fights to be amazing in that film, the story left me rather cold. I really haven’t been back to the genre at all since then, but the premise of Chocolate, the newest film from Ong-Bak director Prachya Pinkaew, really caught my attention. I’m glad I gave this style of film a second chance, because to put it simply, Chocolate kicks ass.

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