A good movie

Since I’m a big fan of ‘Breaking Bad’, of course, I was really eager to see this sequel. Well, I thought it was a decent watch but not much more than that, to be honest. I mean, like anyone else who followed this massively popular TV-show, I was wondering what happened afterwards to Jesse Pinkman after the show ended but, to be honest, Vince Gilligan gave here the most generic answer possible. Indeed, eventually, Pinkman spends most of the duration looking for some cash and how to get out of Dodge and, sure, it was probably the most obvious way to handle the rest of his storyline but I don’t think it really required 2 hours of running time. The main issue, in my opinion, was that Vince Gilligan developed this story as if it was some kind of long episode from a TV-show, instead of really developing it as an actual feature film. As a result, half of the movie was made of fillers, basically, some scenes which could easily be removed but are still added just to fill in the running time. In a TV-show, such fillers can be annoying but they are understandable since the average season last around 16-20 hours. However, it is less acceptable when they use such scenes in movie like this one. Anyway, the flashback involving Jesse Plemons was pretty good and the whole thing was working fine until the 2 fake cops showed up to also steal the money. I mean, I think it would have worked better if Jesse would have just found the money right there and then moved on with his journey. Instead, we spent an awful lot of time with the guy running around to gather enough cash. Anyway, to conclude, even though it didn’t really blow me away, it was pretty neat to get back into Vince Gilligan’s world and to see Jesse Pinkman getting some closure so the damned thing is still definitely worth a look, especially if you enjoyed ‘Breaking Bad’.