Review of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) by Gilberto — 12 Oct 2019

Want to know what happens to Jesse Pinkman after the finale of Breaking Bad? Then here you will get to know-and the results may be quite satisfying but thats only because we have known the character for such a long time.

In fact, maybe the best way to describe El Camino is by comparing it to going to your grandmas for lunch. Its safe, its comfortable, you know you love her soup, but nothing in there will surprise you or excite you beyond that.

Getting to see old faces, seeing those beautiful shots of New Mexico and the sharp direction of Vince Gilligan is all good and takes you back to the days of the show, but there is just not enough of a story here to compensate.

What ultimately happens in the story is what you would have probably guessed back then that Jesse would do to find a new leaf on his life. Furthermore, as cool as it may be to see other characters from the show, it turns out to be distracting as well to see them not look as they used to 6 years ago when the show was running- an understandable thing considering people age, but since the story takes place immediately after the events of the finale, it is distracting nonetheless.

For Breaking Bad fans, this is an insightful part of the story that shows more of Jesse and his struggles during his captivity and his means to freedom, and in that regard, considering it is on Netflix, it is an easy watch- but generally speaking, lets just say that there isn't much here to get excited about, and I may even call it, an unnecessary trip back to Albuquerque.