When you first hear about a movie that will be released six years after the end of the series Breaking Bad, you will ask yourself: I wonder if it is necessary for this film? Is it what we need? Is it what we need at all? I was even worried that it wouldruin the perfect ending of the iconic series, but I can assure you that the film does not touch the wonderful ending, but adds only two more days after which it will make us see how Jesse ended up.
For those who wonder about what the film offers to the world Breaking Bad I will answer you in a nutshell, he answers the question: What happened to Jesse after the end of the series? Did he get the justice he deserves after all he has suffered? The series allowed Walter's character to get a complete end while Jesse's story ended in a rather suspended form. But for those who entered the film in the hope of seeing anything about Walter or his family and what happened to her, he might feel some disappointment, as you won't see any of this here.
The film is all about Jesse, who appears with every shot in it, and succeeds in filling in some of the gaps of the series when the entire focus on Walter as it approaches without revealing much about Jesse's journey of torment in captivity depends here on flashback footage in which we see a lot of details that we missed, but it's not without the suffering of some of the tense flashback moments of burning because our knowledge of the events that Jesse experienced in the series softened her knowledge of how he ended up.
But that doesn't soften the film's good pace, as Flashback has also been used as a way to bring back some of the beloved characters from Jesse's world specifically (don't hope to see anything from Walter's world at all), from a shot with Mike to the two knifey Pete and Badger who expected Everyone saw them in the movie, as well as a quick shot with Jane, and finally Walter with a short, brief scene that was the coolest for me in the film (I was hoping to see more between Jesse and Walter as I was hoping to learn more about what happened to his family and his wife, but that didn't stop the film from going on at a good pace). But the surprise was that Saul didn't show up at all because I was expecting it even with a short scene.
Jesse is back, but without his famous phrase Bitch,which we clearly notice is completely missing from the film, which made me feel like aslightly different character, Jesse is back as a person with PTSD, it's not a runaway story, but a story of a person stuck, not only physically but also within his mind.
But there is a negativity that I can only comment on. GeminiMan, the film could have used it to look more realistic in its time period.
He's coming. El Camino is written and directed by Vince Gilligan (who initially thought of making it as a short film for the 10th anniversary of the series), which is why the film maintains the same pace, spirit and splendor as the series, but at the same time makes it look more like a tv episode along the length of a film than an independent film. Although Gilligan said in one of the interviews I saw that the film could be viewed independently and that viewers should not watch Breaking Bad first to enjoy it, I don't think people who didn't follow the show with its 62 episodes and related to Jesse's character would find a lot of fun in it.
The bottom line gives El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie Jesse Pinkman the finale he deserves without affecting the perfect finale of the iconic series. Although it doesn't highlight all of Breaking Bad's biggest universe, which some may be disappointed in, it fills some blanks in Jesse's story from the end of the series, giving us a greater insight into his suffering, his journey of transformation using a lot of flashback footage and the brief appearance of many of the series's beloved stars. Combining the impressive performance of Aaron Paul, arguably his best in his career, and Gilligan's outstanding story and directorship, he is arguably the perfect gift for fans of the series in general and Jesse in particular.