re: "The Master" is HORRIBLE - don't waste time/money on this POS

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How can you have outstanding performances but not a good film?

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Well . . . The Master may be a very good example.

There were fine performances all around, but I'm not sure it really worked. It was, in fact, a love story involving Phoenix and Hoffman's characters. The cult (Scientology thinly disguised) subplot was for the most part secondary and merely a device. The relationship was the story, and I grew tired of it after awhile.

I went in with very high expectations, and that may have been the problem.