By: Konan Lemus
El Camino really does deserve the praise it gets or even more as the the story of the movie is enticing, exhilarating, and even intense at the end. The movie takes elements from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul and enhances those elements to make this insane epilogue of a movie to tie the knot of the Breaking Bad Series.
The movie recreates these scenes from the show and enhances them with better cinematography as Netflix has Vince Gilligan, director and executive producer of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, back to direct the movie with a higher budget for equipment and action scenes.
To understand this movie first we must have a background for some important characters of the movie, especially the main character of this movie, Jesse, who is an old student of Walter White, joined together to make a meth business. Jesse originally joined for the money and also because he was a drug addict. Through many experiences of loss and betrayal we start to see Jesse's character start to develop from this young reckless adult who really had nothing planned in life turn into a very serious, traumatized man trying to escape the reputation he was given by the media.
Joining Jesse in the movie is Mike, an ex-police officer from Philadelphia who was looking for a job in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when a drug-lord offered him a job as bodyguard, which Mike took to support his granddaughter and his daughter-in-law.
Our last important character to highlight is Jack who is a leader of this Nazi gang that lead to the events of the beginning of this movie and the end of the show so I will not be spoiling exactly what happens at the end of the show with him, but he was able to come into the picture thanks to one of Mike’s guys named Todd who is the nephew of Jack.
With a general idea of the characters we can now see that the idea presented at the beginning of the movie is Jesse talking to Mike about how if he could start fresh for a new life where would he go, and Mike tells him he would go to Alaska because it's quiet and no Cops could find them. It then transitions to right about where Breaking Bad ended with Jesse taking a car and driving like hell until he sees blue and red lights coming from down the road. He sneaks the car into a random person's driveway and hides behind the car doors with a gun to protect himself. As he hides he watches all the police cars drive past him heading towards Jack's hideout and takes this opportunity to drive off to his friend Skinny Pete’s house, with his other friend Badger to have a place to hide and get some rest. This is just the beginning of the movie and I wouldn’t want to spoil the rest because I'm pretty sure not everyone who has read our Breaking Bad review has finished the show.
Events from the show really leave an impact on this movie so I highly recommend watching the whole show Breaking Bad and its amazingly-directed scenes before watching this movie. The movie contains amazing cinematography, camera work, and way better visuals, thanks to the budget increases from Netflix.
Overall the movie is really amazing and a great sequel to Breaking Bad if you have watched the show. It lets the viewer know what the hell is going on and what happened to the characters after the events of Breaking Bad. This movie is definitely a must watch if you really like action-drama and suspenseful-intense moments. So if you have the time try to finish all of the Breaking Bad series and then watch this amazing movie.
If you find yourself still wanting to watch more of Breaking Bad franchise and its characters then there's also Better Call Saul, which is a before and after the events of Breaking Bad following Jesse and Walter’s lawyer, Saul Goodman.
Good luck to anyone trying to finish Breaking Bad and this movie and I hope you enjoy your time watching both the show and movie.