As the controlling, extremely cautious Mr. Yee, Leung is too stiff and remote to register as a romantic hero.
Hey Bruce! Thank you for posting that review! I really wish I were more of a Hitchcock scholar - I've only seen a few. But I do know romantic heroes.
In romance, heroes are divided into essentially three categories: alpha males are larger than life, take charge, take care of their love interest, always know what's best for them; beta males are sensitive ordinary guys, frequently geeks who rise to the occasion when needed but see their love interest as equals; gamma males are remote, inscrutable, cruel,
even especially to their lovers, frequently scarred from some past trauma, redeemable in the end (perhaps?) by the power of love.
So, I completely think the reviewer misses the boat with the above statement. It is precisely Yee's remoteness and inscrutability that make him a
perfect gamma hero. His inaccessibility makes him compelling to the heroine; she is drawn to him, even at the expense of her own survival. Supporting the resistance is her motivation initially, but IMO, it becomes more than that. I found myself drawn to him too.