![]() Paul’s Jesse Pinkman feels like a new character – the torturous, demeaning existence he was living at the end of Breaking Bad has made him a new character, far from the brash young small-time criminal he was at the beginning of the series. However, if you really wanted to know what became of Jesse, then this movie has all the answers for you. You can live your life with your imagination of what Jesse did after the fateful night he finally escaped the bloodbath in the compound. So to be clear, even if you’re a Breaking Bad fan, you don’t necessarily have to see this movie. Apparently, for Vince Gilligan, there was more to Jesse’s story to be told, and you know what? I’m fine with that as well. Jesse fleeing the compound at the end, it never really bugged me what happened after that. However, I thought that it pretty much wrapped everything up to a somewhat satisfying conclusion. Yes, it could have been better, I will give anyone that. Review: I’ll be honest with you – I was okay with how Breaking Bad ended. Plot: After escaping the Brotherhood, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) tries to start his life over again, but his old life keeps getting in the way. Simply think of "El Camino" as the cherry on top.You can make the case that this is another movie that really didn’t need to be made that being said, Aaron Paul is engaging as always, the plot was suspenseful, and it was great to see familiar faces back together again. In that sense, "Breaking Bad" was already an ice cream sundae. The key word in its title is that capital letter "A": This is a "Breaking Bad" movie, not the "Breaking Bad" movie.ĭoes that mean there's more to come? Why not: "Breaking Bad" has proven to be fertile storytelling ground - "Better Call Saul" is soon to be entering its fifth season - and there's plenty of ground to cover with other characters (Gustavo Fring!), should Gilligan so choose. Pinkman was never a big picture thinker, and "El Camino" stays true to him by keeping things appropriately small scale. Gilligan sees Pinkman as the outlaw hero of this Western, quite literally in one climactic scene. It's not as sharp as the series was at its best, however, and it takes a few narrative shortcuts the series would have made sure to plot out in more exacting fashion. "El Camino" recreates the tone and feel of "Breaking Bad" so effectively that it's a wonder it wasn't shot at the same time and stuck in a vault until now. He colors in the edges of his frames with the crooks, lowlifes and schemers that always made his series so vivid. ![]() Gilligan, working with cinematographer Marshall Adams, captures some stunning desert photography, a hallmark of the series. ![]() Plemons' Todd is back in flashback, as are a handful of other familiar faces from the series a quick refresher on Robert Forster's character, Ed, certainly wouldn't hurt viewers. We're reminded that before Walter's guns went a-blazin', Pinkman was held hostage, chained up, cooking meth for quiet psycho Todd (Jesse Plemons) and his uncle's gang of thugs. The film opens with a quick recap of events leading up to the "Breaking Bad" finale, a helpful TripTik for those who haven't revisited the series lately. It isn't packed with fireworks: writer-director Vince Gilligan keeps the pace at a slow burn, like a long drag off a cigarette, framing the story as Pinkman's redemption tale. "El Camino" flashes back just as much as it picks up Pinkman's story in the immediate aftermath of his escape. "El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie" gives him that second shot. But Pinkman was a victim and an underdog, and even if he didn't exactly deserve a second shot, no one was going to argue if he was given one. With his soft eyes and gentle manner, Paul allowed viewers in and made them feel for the character and even root for him.īryan Cranston's Walter White had done too much wrong to go forward. That's because in many ways Pinkman - played by Aaron Paul, who won three Emmys for his role as the burnout who went on to cook meth with his high school chemistry teacher - was the heart of the series, which wrapped in 2013 after five seasons. Pinkman's escape, crashing through a chain link fence at full speed in an El Camino, was the series' closest approximation of a happy ending.
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