“El Camino” means “the road” or “the way” in Spanish, and the title is as much about Jesse’s path from A to B as it is about his temporary wheels. “El Camino” is even more so, literally climaxing in a “Wild West” quick-draw gunfight and fitting its heist scenes into an outlaw-gets-out-of-Dodge story. “Breaking Bad,” with its standoffs and lonely desert vistas, was always at least half Western. Showing up on the doorstep of his old buddies Badger (Matt Jones) and Skinny Pete (Charles Baker), he’s suddenly back in the land of liberty and Axe body spray, with hours to get his hands on enough cash to disappear before the law finds him. He’s vacant-eyed and half-feral, just freed from enslavement to a white-supremacist gang by his ex-partner, the druglord Walter White (Bryan Cranston). The Jesse we meet in “El Camino” is not the boisterous “Yeah, bitch! Magnets!” Jesse of memory, and with good reason. The film, written and directed by the series’s creator, Vince Gilligan, is a well-crafted postscript that entertainingly extends the “Breaking Bad” cinematic universe by two hours without really adding to it. If remembering the heyday of one of TV’s greatest series is enough for him, then he might be just the audience for “El Camino,” now on Netflix and in theaters. “Yeah, that was a good one.” It’s a striking line, as if Joe were a nostalgic fan of the very story that he’s a character in. “Magnets!” he says, recalling a famous physics-based Season 5 escapade. This job’s on the house, he tells Jesse, for old times’ sake. Spoilers for “El Camino: A ‘Breaking Bad’ Movie” follow.Įarly in “El Camino,” Old Joe (Larry Hankin), a junkyard proprietor, visits Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) to relieve him of the stolen pickup-car that gives this sequel its title.
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