Neither of these was very good, but neither were they bad. There is a strange sort of linkage between these two. There are 'criminals' in both who someone wants to kill. Both criminals are charming in some way. And obviously the viewer should care what happens in the end of these, will the killings be successful and how will they be accomplished.
-- Spoilers --
The Lust, Caution criminal does not seem at all charming to me, but perhaps to a woman he would be. What was his big attraction? He seems to know a lot of sexual positions. Big whoop. But more importantly, he has money and power. I don't know exactly why the woman decides to save him, but perhaps he seems to truly love her and trust her. As a spy for the resistance, her facade is so solid, perhaps it's become truth. She does love him. She doesn't immediately realize perhaps that she is causing her own death by warning him off. Of course, for me, the guy is definitely not worth it -- he's completely unattractive --, though the diamond is certainly an expensive bauble, it wouldn't sway me. But in the end, what good would killing the guy have done anyway? Just someone else would have taken the guy's place. This whole assassination mission of the Chinese resistance to the Japanese wasn't worth the trouble.
As for Jesse James, I did start rooting for the brothers trying to kill him, and in a way, he perhaps wished to be killed by 'a friend' rather than by law enforcement. But really this Jesse James seems unworthy of admiration, unless one hailed from the defeated South.
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