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That's how you need to look at this film, it's an epilogue to "Breaking Bad." Though not needed this film is a wonderful final journey for the character of Jesse Pinkman (and Aaron Paul at his best) as well as a good moment of closure for fans as well as Vince Gilligan. If looked at on its own you'll find a nice crime thriller with great undertones of drama, and that's all you really need from this story.

Everyone thought that El Camino would be better or equal to Breaking Bad; but the thing is you can't surpass perfection. Breaking Bad is undoubtedly the best or at least one of the best TV series of all time. Just because it isn't better than BrBa doesn't mean it sucks. This film is Jesse's Felina. Wonderful cinematography, great acting, great directing by Gilligan and fan favorite characters return. It however has slow pacing but all in all is a solid film.

It's sad to see the amount of people disappointed in this movie. I understand this is all subjective put personally I thought the movie was incredible. It was the perfect epilogue to the series and completed Jesse's story in such a satisfying way. It's the closure we as the audience could only desire, and more than a tribute to the series. So please, realize that this was never meant to be what Endgame was for the MCU, with crazy SFX and action non-stop, but rather Gilligan's masterpiece being fully finished.

Felina was the wrapping paper, this is the ribbon.

I managed to avoid the hype of this film; I did look forward to it, but it was only some time after release that I remembered it and sat to give it a go. I'm sort of conflicted by it, but generally I enjoyed it and appreciated it as an epilogue to the main series. The upside of it is that it does fill in blanks around a character, story, and world, that I'm already engaged in. It does this with the high production value and engaging style that Gilligan brings to his work, and he has a great eye for space and detail. Within this though it must be said that it could easily have been an hour to do the same thing, and even what constitutes events within this film, could be argued to be padding that doesn't add much. Certainly it is far from being the impressive expansion of Better Call Saul.

The style does help this, and it uses the long pauses and space well. Paul adds a lot too, turning in a great performance throughout and producing elements not in the dialogue. Even with this though it is not an essential film, and it is not one that can be watched without having watched the series - as it does rely on the viewer being already bought into it as a world, and already having affection for the characters. If you have this though, it is easy to overlook its weaker elements, and simply enjoy it for the confidence it has in itself, and its genuine interest in its characters.

Here's a honest review. It's solid but not great. It tells the story of what happens to Jesse following the events of Breaking Bad and what he needs to do to try and flee the town. If you're expecting the high octane drama of Breaking Bad, it's not here. It's a suspenseful slow-burn that left me feeling like I didn't get what I was expecting. Cool little story about Jesse, but not the fireworks that is Breaking Bad. And definitely not a 10/10 that all these moochers are giving it.

Thank you Vince for rising from your slumber to give us a second breaking bad finale that was still better than game of thrones.

It feels like a 42 minute episode was stretched to 2 hours through not-always-interesting flashbacks and filler writing. Several scenes felt stretched a minute or two longer than necessary. The result is a slowly told suspense story with Jesse encountering too many conveniently timed coincidences and hurdles, one after the other, than believable or perhaps I mean tolerable to the viewer.

I'm a fan of the original series and consider it to be one of the best TV shows of all time. Unfortunately this latest release isn't really close to the same level of depth and creativity. I expected a better story tbh.

To those saying its "a masterpiece": It's not. There's nothing in this movie we haven't seen before and that's ok. In its context and with the background this is a solid sendoff for Jesse with some amazing moments and some good fanservice (maybe 1° too much for my taste).

It was not as good as I hoped it would be, but it's certainly a good movie and I'm happy this hasn't gone wrong.

Not sure if Vince is planning on doing some more of these, but I'd be down.

For me this wat a bit of a flat movie. It is more of the same of breaking bad. Nice acting, nice scenes, some twists and humour. But I had no special feeling. Yes we know now what happend to Jesse, but did I really need to know? So the urgency to see this movie is not there for me. It is nice to know but nothing more.

Lenny Kravitz knew best ... Music reference aside, this movie continues from where Breaking Bad left us. So suffice to say that this was made for fans of the show. And I will assume that you have seen the TV show, therefor do not read on, if you haven't.

The very last episode of Breaking Bad seemed to round things up. Almost all loose ends were tight up. Especially when it came to Walter White. And what was Breaking Bad if not a show about a teacher who became this bigger than life villain? Well Aaron Paul had something to say about that. And since his character had something to offer us still ... the creator of Breaking Bad felt he could satisfy the need from fans to have more.

And for fans the movie is filled with little pieces of callbacks and nice references. Not to mention some flashbacks with some of our favorite characters (to hate). So yes I do understand if some feel this undermines the end of the actual TV show, but that would be missing the bigger picture (no pun intended). Yes there was not an absolute need for this movie, but what it does is expanding on the ending and giving us something that transcends the TV show and may even elevate it - not to mention get many people to rewatch the original series ... even more so than Better call Saul made them do it (a show I haven't watched yet) ...

Was this movie made by the same author who made Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul? Did he put less effort in this than in his average 45 minute episode? Does aging really have this rapid deteriorating effects on both the director and the actors? This movie poses so many troubling questions.

The plot of the movie is very simple, and is delivered in a confident manner of some filler episodes of the famous series. Cameos, done as mostly flashbacks, of Mike, Heisenberg, Jane the girlfriend are all checked in an OK way. What movie lacks is interesting plot or any surprises. One particularly stupid gunfight falls far short of the standards even of filler episodes of the main series. We do not get to see what happened to Walt's family (did his plagiarizing rich friends deliver the goods etc), and closure regards mostly Jesse, but that is not the real reason the movie is so bland. One cringe worthy flashback involves fat Todd, who should have been digitalized or put on some heavy diet (as should have some other actors who aged much, deep fakes should have done the job). The one nice point was friendship of skinny Pete and Badger, but the whole thing felt like one stretched out and mostly filler episode. Quite mediocre for a feature film, and disappointing given the quality of the series, yet I will mark it a bit over what it deserves on account of good old days (should be rated much closer to the bottom objectively).