![]() ![]() During the flashback with Todd, Todd killed an innocent woman and acted normal because he had to to protect his secret life. Jesse didn't want to kill, he wanted out of the cage of his life. It examined survival, morality, and how a man who did bad things can't put it right, but he can choose his own path. As somebody else aid in this thread, it was like a couple of average quality episodes stitched together. It was well done, as we've come to expect from Gilligan and everything in the BB universe, but unnecessary. The movie really reaches for a big climax and a worthy antagonist, neither of which seem fully formed. If Jesse intended to kill the welder guy going in, why set up the convoluted and unpredictable conditions for an old west gun fight? Why not just ambush the dudes while drunk/high? It's not like he has some deep desire for a honorable duel or whatever since he uses deception to kill the guy anyway. The stakes of the conflict (how will Jesse get enough cash to give to the vacuum guy?) were kind of lame and the climax also seemed hamfisted. ![]() We see the rough outline, but it needed to be tightened up, especially for a 2 hour runtime. I'm not saying that it 100% needs to (because it's always going to occupy an awkward space between movie and series finale of an established TV show), but it's more of a problem that it doesn't really contain a strong, internally confined narrative.Ĭonflict, rising tension, climax, resolution. It really doesn't stand on its own as a movie. ![]()
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