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El Camino is THE sequel Breaking Bad deserves. It starts from the point where the series ends. For the uninitiated, Breaking Bad is a story Walter White, a chemistry professor, played by Bryan Cranston and his uprising as the Meth king. Due to his cancer and the quest to earn money so that his family has enough money, he ventures in the illicit business of cooking meth. He finds his partner in his former student named Jesse Pinkman, played by Aaron Paul. The series is about the rise and fall of Walt and Jesse and how the circumstances lead them towards their own destruction.
El Camino commences from the point when Jesse Pinkman escapes with Walt’s help after being imprisoned by the Neo-nazis in the series. While Walt kills himself, Jesse is seeing fleeing using the car that’s the title of this Netflix film. Vince Gilligan couldn’t have given a better sequel and the best closure to all the questions BB fans had in their minds.
In the film, it isn’t easy for Jesse Pinkman to figure out what to do as the Albuquerque police starts a search operation on him. With a lot of confusion and distress, he visits his friends Badger (Matthew Lee Jones) and Skinny Pete (played by Charles Baker). While they are astounded to see him alive and in a disastrous state, they help him out without asking a question.
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From that point, we are taken on a journey we weren’t mentally and emotionally prepared. With flashbacks of the time he was kidnapped by the Neo-nazis to his current state to making sure he gets himself out of the mess, we are left at the edge of the seat. There are moments in the movie that will leave you surprised, emotional and nostalgic.