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Reach Goodykoontz at Facebook: /GoodyOnFilm. It’s certainly a more definitive ending than that of “Breaking Bad.” It’s just not a better one. And that’s where Jessie ends up, with a new identity and maybe, just maybe, a new start on life. Mike says if he could go anywhere, it would be Alaska. At the beginning of “El Camino,” we see Jessie and Mike (Jonathan Banks) talking (before Walter killed Mike, obviously). Jessie has to go through all sorts of troubles and misadventures to get the money, but he does. But Ed wants both payment for a previously botched escape and this new one.

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The whole movie hinges on Jessie having to raise $1,800 so that Ed (Robert Forster), the vacuum-cleaner salesman who helped Walter and Saul disappear in the original series, can get him away cleanly, too. RELATED: Oscar-nominated actor Robert Forster dies at 78ġ. (“You could go to college.”) Of course Jessie had no idea how cruelly Walter would shape that future, or what he would endure. It’s a small scene near the end, set after the season two mondo meth cook, and Walter is talking to Jessie about his future. This is always a good thing, but again, wholly unnecessary to the story. It’s nice to see him get something back, if only in memory.Ģ. As Jessie would say, Walter took everything from him eventually. She’s still dead, of course - when Walter let her choke on her own vomit and die, it was the turning point in “Breaking Bad,” the line crossed with no possibility of redemption. In a scene reminiscent of the end of Alan Rudolph’s great “Trouble in Mind,” Jessie is driving down the road with Jane (Krysten Ritter), in happier times. Jessie is reunited with Jane, his girlfriend, who is dead. An especially nice touch of insanity when he removes the belt from her next and puts it on, saying, “I’m going to need this.”ģ. “She was as honest as the day is long.” He just couldn’t have any witnesses. So she was stealing from you, Jessie asks? No, Todd says. Here Jessie recalls a weird weekend in captivity, when Todd stole him away to his apartment - to dispose of the body of his cleaning lady. And we realized, when he shot the boy on the bicycle in the original series, he was pretty far gone to begin with. Todd Alquist (Jessie Plemons) is more of a psycho than we realized. “Dude, you’re my hero and (expletive).” It may be the best line in the movie.įOR SUBSCRIBERS: Linda Ronstadt documentary can make you cryĤ. Why, Jessie asks? Pete shrugs and walks away. Pete in particular comes up with an on-the-spot plan that keeps Jessie from being captured, at great risk to himself. But when Jessie arrives, scarred emotionally and physically after being caged like a dog, their better instincts kick in. They’re fighting over a video game, idiots till the end. Jessie shows up at the run-down house where Skinny Pete and Badger (Matt Jones), Jessie’s friends and sometimes bad business partners, live.

But if you have, dig in, and let’s discuss.ĥ. Here are five spoilers from the film, so if you haven’t seen it yet, READ NO FURTHER. Jessie is on the run, trying to make his escape. Jesse takes off in an El Camino just before the cops arrive at the slaughter.Īnd that’s where “El Camino” picks up. Walter White (Bryan Cranston), his former chemistry teacher and meth master cook, lies dying in a pool of blood, having killed all the captors. It’s basically an extended extra episode, filling us in on what happens to Jesse immediately following his bloody liberation after being enslaved by white supremacists who made him cook meth for them. “El Camino” tells us what happens to Jesse Pinkman, played by the great Aaron Paul, and he’s really great here. I interviewed the Coen brothers once, and said I know writers and directors hate this question, but what do you think happened to the main character after the film ends? One of them started to answer, stopped and said, “I do hate this question.” If he wanted to know what happened later, he would have ended the movie then.

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Didn’t the series wrap up just fine as it was? 11, is really good and really unnecessary. The what-happened-next film, which premiered on Netflix on Friday, Oct. If you had any worries that Vince Gilligan, the genius who created “Breaking Bad,” might sully the show’s reputation with a follow-up movie, “El Camino” dispels them. Spoiler alert: “El Camino” is well worth your while.

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