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Review title: Not as good as others in genre
Product review: After reading the initial reviews on the site, I was expecting much more from this film. It simply does not stack up to the emotional punch and narrative vision of films like "Raise the Red Lantern" "Temptress Moon" "Farewell My Concubine" or "Shanghai Triad." The atmosphere in the other films I have listed is so thick you can smell the opera paint and incence, but Rogue was less engrossing, less compelling, less moving. The ghost from the past was out of place in modern-day Hong Kong. The directing was also a little weak in comparison with the top rate work on the films listed above.Leslie Cheung is fine, as in his later works, above, but I was not overly impressed with the female lead. She certainly does not hold a candle to Gong Li, who is the goddess of current Chinese cinema!All in all, fine for a rental, but not a repeat viewer . . .
