Maybe someone at Always Good Film told Ringo Lam that fluff sans darkness and downer endings is the only way to go for their Barry Wong scripted project. The master, in early, early development instead was brought onto a project of light proportions and delivered the film. However the end result of The Other Side Of Gentleman is not only a step down from the entertaining/eerie/felt debut of Lam's, Esprit D'amour, it's completely empty in all areas of romance and comedy.

It could be argued that Barry Wong's script leans heavy towards the broad hysterics of the local comedy and at the same time being a form of satire of the youth of that era. Regardless, Wong and Lam comes up painfully short and at best the film is a showcase commercially for its star Alan Tam. All well and good if he had possessed any charisma or sparks with Brigitte Lin but he instead drains much life out of the romance. Lin has never looked more uninspired and clearly is too good for this particular project. When it all culminates in the final reel partly set in a church, proceedings turn downright embarrassing as it's the typical example of characters feeling everything emotionally but the audience never being convinced at all.