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It’s to the credit of Gilligan, who wrote and directed the film, that it feels like a continuation of Breaking Bad without also feeling like merely an extra-long TV episode.
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Yet the movie, which contains as many nail-biting moments as the show used to spread over a full season, gives him something new to be: an action hero-albeit a uniquely conflicted, exhausted and in many ways broken one.
(In truth, it should put him in the Oscar conversation, but this is a TV sequel distributed by Netflix that won’t meet the Academy’s eligibility requirements.) Fully re-inhabiting a role he hadn’t played for years, he endows Jesse with the same mix of (waning) goofiness and (escalating) existential terror that propelled him through the finale. Paul earned three Emmys for his supporting role on Breaking Bad, and in El Camino he delivers a mesmerizing lead performance that proves he deserves a spot on Hollywood’s A-list. If Walt is Breaking Bad’s Richard III, Pete and Badger are its Shakespearean fools, cutting the tension with endearingly dopey exchanges like: “You couldn’t drive Miss Daisy.” “Whoever that is.”
Despite its action-thriller pace and scale, one of the greatest pleasures of El Camino is that it still makes space for the funny banter that cut through the bleakness of Walter White’s descent. His first stop is the home of his old friend Skinny Pete (Charles Baker)-a small-time criminal who is, predictably, in the midst of a video-game marathon with their pal Badger (Matt L. But first he needs to clean himself up, ditch the El Camino, scrape together enough cash to make a fresh start and say goodbye to the few people he loves whose lives Walt has spared. Jesse-who spent the episodes leading up to the finale in a box, held prisoner by the disconcertingly cheerful Todd (Jesse Plemons) and his gang-has to get out of Albuquerque before law enforcement can track him down.
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13 in some theaters, picks up where the series left off. The gripping El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, out now on Netflix and showing through Sunday, Oct. Six years later, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan is back with the results. Surviving much longer, however, would be a test of his intelligence, resourcefulness and-most of all-his determination to live a better life. As Paul explained to TIME in a recent interview, “You’d like to think he’s riding off into the sunset, but you know life isn’t going to be that easy for him.” Sure, he made it out of five seasons alive. So it seemed somewhat appropriate that Jesse’s fate remained unsettled. Like Dorian Gray’s portrait, his face registered the blackening of Walt’s soul. Unlike Walt’s inevitable death, Jesse’s ending was morally ambiguous: manipulated by a man who’d come to represent evil incarnate but still personally implicated in horrific violence, Jesse had also suffered terribly for his transgressions.
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