Huge Sopranos fan here. I was really disappointed by this prequel. I just don’t see how Tony projected out to be this great talent that Sal was relaying to Dicky at the end of the movie, like what evidence was there? D+ student, robbing ice cream trucks, elementary school gambling ring? We should have seen more of Tony the leader, more focus on his character at that stage.
I have a few more nitpicks. The actor that played young Sal really dialed it up The mannerisms, it was too much. James Gandolfini‘s son who played a young Tony, I thought he did a pretty decent job with the mannerisms but I just wasn’t convinced that that was a young Tony soprano, there was a certain arrogance missing I think.