Profligate means recklessly extravagant, wasteful of resources. Now that I know I doubt I will use the word again. The title on my copy has a typo - "The Iron Trofligates".
It opens with three guys attack and kill a man on the beach who claims to know nothing. Cut to the big boss, played by Tien Yeh, hires a new guy but this involves talking to the police first. Our hero, Tong Lung, lurks in the background during all this. As usual, it's all about drug dealers as the bad guys.
Tong Lung is another of those actors from the 1970s who seemed to come from nowhere to lead in a few martial arts movies in which they displayed good skills and then vanished back to wherever it was they came. Other than his credits I have found no biographical information about Tong Lung. I do have almost all of his movies and will be reviewing what I have. His first movie and lead was "The Ferocious Brothers".
My copy is a digital file that pays on a HDTV as a square shaped low resolution video. The dialog is Chinese. The English subtitles look like they were added by a fan. Thank you, unknown fan!
The action in this movie, particularly by Tong Lung, is competent. He has good posture, strong moves and is on target with the blows and blocks. Beyond that there is nothing special. The story drags whenever the action is missing for a while. The entire movie is adequate and quickly forgettable so I rate it totally average for the year and genre.
