The Grandmaster (US Version) – That popular criticism “style over substance” comes to mind when talking about The Grandmaster. Critics mostly fawned over it, while more than a few of us left the film scratching our heads at what just happened? I’m incredibly glad I did not watch this in the theater, because I cannot imagine my disappointment at this seemingly stellar product (and no, it’s got nothing to do with that arbitrary Martin Scorsese name-drop in the title). What happened to make this film pretty terrible comes down to a number of different factors.