Let's play the plot hole game...

The most glaring plot hole, like you said, is the fact that the prisoners have free reign over the prison. They can go in and out of their cells at any time of day and do whatever they want.

I also likes how he frees all the prisoners at the end. I was like, "Um, pretty sure those guys were there for a reason. But way and free a bunch of murderers, child molesters, and rapists." I mean no where in the movie do they imply the system is corrupt and that the prisoners are innoncet of said crimes.

He chose to stay in the prison....
Also, them having basically free reign over the prison doesn't mean that much. They still have to stay in prison, not free to go outside of the walls, and live their old lives. They still have to deal with the ruthless gang leaders and corrup officials. It still wouldn't be a good place to live, and it is still punishing.

As for the other plot holes.... he rebuilt the train. Everything else; he's a master kung fu fighter. What he chooses to do, and how and when, he has mysterious reasons for. LoL.

What about the ubiquitous shower scene where he punches through a couple of guys but is happily subdued by a skinny guard shaking a stick?

Ricky beat the *beep* out of the plot holes.

Let's play the "Who's not paying attention" game... =)

***SPOILERS***

Obioulsy why didn't Riki just break the wall to begin with

A: He was there on a mission. He had corruption to clean up and he wasn't going to leave until the job was done.

The fact that in numerous scenes inmates just open there cell doors an walk out thusly securing my belief in that being the worst prison ever

A: Privatized prison, where no one did anything without the permission of the warden or the four wing bosses. Fear was the ruling factor, so having guys run around free wasn't a real danger to the system. They didn't dare mis-behave.

When Riki was walking in the rain in the courtyard by himself (again it's a prison) and they are removing the body of the old man, Riki removes a train from his jacket that clearly was not there in the prior scence, and that was smashed in the begining.

A: He re-built it for the guy and the guy died before he had a chance to give him the fixed version. Thus, the agony that Ricky expressed at his death.

The not so secret opium fields

A: Again, fear factor. It's a privatized prison build on fear. Who would dare say (or do) anything about it?

Where the hell did a 40 foot curcifix come from?

A: The assistant warden had it brought in. He said he was going to draw Ricky out into the open. What better way to do it?

The warden's explosion into a paper-mache monster

A: Remember the earlier scene where the warden needed his medicine? He had an attack while eating with his fat, annoying kid. His "medicine" was obviously some sort of enhancement drug that kept him large and in charge.

Riki's name goes from being Riki Ho in the begining to Riki Oh by the end

A: Because there's such a phonetic difference between Ho and Oh in an overdubbed film where the actors are still speaking with Asian-ized American accents?

Riki's girlfriends suicide

A: She didn't commit suicide. She was driven to jump by the pimp who was the guy who put five bullets in Ricky's chest (that set off the metal detector at the beginning of the film) That's why Ricky killed him (rather graphically)

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There are no plot holes. This movie is flawless.

here's a plot hole. why the hell did he have to write "don't give up" on Riki's plate? why didn't he just say to him "don't give up, Riki!" why the hell was the plate necessary?