A classic TV movie review: Nothing Nothing Nothing! A Taiwanese martial art movie from 2002

During the 90s, a young boy name Aston Chen took Hong Kong with storm, only 6 years old and performed tai chi Kung fu in the 1994 movie "Shaolin Popeye". He made several movies in Hong Kong as a child martial art actor, but when he turned to his teens it became too difficult for him to get an acting in Hong Kong because he wasn't a cute little boy anymore (which happens a lot to child actors), he went to Taiwan in early 2000s to restart his career. One of his first Taiwan movie was the tv production from 2002 that had the name Rumble in the Gambling Bronx, but it was renamed because it sounded familiar from other martial art movies, it was renamed to "Nothing, Nothing, Nothing!".

Story:

After his fathers death, young Bruce Chan (Aston Chen) travels from his home to the city of Taipei to find his sister (Kit Yee Chung). But he has no money and his sister work as a prostitute for the crime lord Chung (Jamie Luk). After Bruce rescue some street kids to be arrested by the police, he become friend with the street kids leader who is a young girl named Lok Yee (Nicole Tung Ka-Ka). However Chung also notice Bruce's martial art skills, and hire him to fight for him in an underground fight club, Bruce accept but only in one condition, that he get his sister back after he wins the fight.

Overall:

Allthough it's a tv production, the movie is a mix of a matinee and serious martial art movie. At first it feels like a kid movie, then it becomes too brutal scene for kids, the fight club scenes feels realistic, some unnecessary death scenes, and there is some uncomfortable woman abouse, child abuse even though that's just a few scenes, and then it change to a goofy TV movie again. And when it comes to Aston Chen, I can see clearly that he hasn't the magic that he use to have when he was a kid. His martial art skill is too ordinary martial artist, he wasn't like that before when he was only 6 his skill was very quick and magical. However the movie is watchable and likable. After all it was made for tv and for that it's pretty decent. 

I reward it with 5/10.