Really wanted to like it, I really did. I loved "BB", so I figured it was a foregone conclusion. It wasn't. The characters look so differently it's jarring. Especially the young Neo Nazi who has Jesse. Jesse looks 15 years older, hairline and weight also very different from the boyish Jesse we knew. There's new material to take you from one scene to the next, but I didn't really have the urge to see what's in that next scene. I felt compelled to finish it because of the series, but it was much ado about nothing. In one word: "Underwhelming". "Unnecessary" in another one. It felt like an unexciting side story that wouldn't take up five minutes in the original series, except padded and stretched laboriously. Bryan Cranston's scenes felt obligatory and simple. Like he was on loan for a day and they had to squeeze a lot in. It didn't help that when we see Walter White, he's standing beside someone drastically aged and heavier that he didn't share the screen with in the series-- and that person is the NEW (older) Jesse. To its credit, the cinematography and exterior shots are beautiful. Still, If it's ain't broke . . .
don't break it.