Perhaps it’s putting the meth cart before the horse, but the beautifully shot film seems to exist primarily as an autobahn for a probable new Paul-led snowy spinoff once the actor’s gigs on HBO’s Westworld and AppleTV+’s Truth Be Told allow for it. Despite gilding the tattered lily with appearances by Cranston, Banks, Ritter, Jess Plemons, Jeffersons’ vet Marla Gibbs, Robert Forster – though oddly not Odenkirk’s huckster lawyer Goodman – and more, the workmen thrust of El Camino reeks of desiring only to get from one place to another with maximum efficiency. Even with a lot of bells, whistles and baubles to distract you from what is absent, EL Camino lacks the essentialness the defined the best of Breaking Bad. Paul discharges his duties eagerly with the material he’s working with, but that story certainly isn’t here. However, with El Camino’s narrative bottle show construction, you have to wonder if Gilligan really and truly thought there was more Breaking Bad story to tell after the murderous end of the show six years ago and the past four seasons of prequel Better Call Saul, then where is it? Yet, as far too many revivals, reboots and reimaginings often unfortunately reveal, if you dangle enough money and enough flattery in front of the right people, nothing really ends on television nowadays. While some may still bicker about the stretch of the restitution and machine gun closure of the blockbuster series after 62 often shrewd episodes, the consequential filled Breaking Bad brought it home in the end with a finale that soon seemed an inevitable conclusion for fans old and new. recaps every moment of in 2 ½ minutes! #ElCamino /1i3sq62sSl Or, as Paul summed it all up so perfectly on Jimmy Kimmel Live! the other night: The two-time Primetime Emmy Outstanding Drama Series also served up more small screen excellence in Cranston and Paul’s performances season after season, the “Fly” episode in Season 3, Krysten Ritter’s Jane and the horrific accident that was the fallout from her horrific death, the pink teddy bear, Bob Odenkirk’s Saul Goodman and, the classic, “I am the danger.” It’s simple, people rightly love the near perfect provenance that was Breaking Bad and they wanted more – so Vince Gilligan and Netflix gave it to them.įrom a time when AMC was more than merely the home of The Walking Dead and its various spinoffs, Breaking Bad was the addictive series that gave us the genius team-up premise of a cancer addled high school science teacher turned methamphetamine kingpin and his self-destructive former student. The global trending on social media immediately after the movie dropped early this morning made that abundantly apparent. Teased out by Paul and promoted like crazy by Netflix across many platforms, El Camino will absolutely bring viewers to the streamer. No need to go into a sub textual read or get caught in the minutia, but El Camino is a script that should have stayed a dream and nothing more. However, far from the exceptional epilogue it may aspire to be, El Camino confirms that sometimes artists like Gilligan are not the best evaluators of their own work. Now, two middling episodes of Breaking Bad are still better than most things on television from any era. Which is to say, picking up in the seconds after the final episode of the AMC series and Pinkman’s flight from meth making enslavement, El Camino is honestly just two melded together middling and ultimately unnecessary Breaking Bad scripts that Gilligan wrote and said “let’s do this.” Literally with blood on his hands and scars all over his body, where will the Paul played character go now that he’s escaped pedal to the metal from the white supremacists’ New Mexico compound in the 1978 Chevrolet that makes up the two hour and two-minute-long film’s name?Įl Camino’s eventual answer is a lot of old faces showing up, a lot of bad stuff happening to a traumatized Jesse and then there’s a chance to start clean and anew in Alaska. Not comfortable to let what was just be, Gilligan’s feature directorial debut seeks to mop up the mystery of what happened next to the ravaged Pinkman. Discovery's Max Is Tops In Streaming Satisfaction, According To Analytics ReportĮven with an inevitable apex of a flashback reunion between Aaron Paul’s Jesse Pinkman and his now deceased mentor-in-crime Walter White, portrayed by Bryan Cranston, the Breaking Bad movie is obsessed with neatly tying to tie up the dangling ends that gave the series 2013 “Felina” finale such endurance.
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