Rebecca Hopkins

4.5/5 ⭐️ Brilliant, intense, nostalgic, at times heartbreaking, at times darkly comic, superb writing and performances with more than breathtaking cinematography Every hope and dream I had for the character Jesse Pinkman came true in this tense, taut, heartbreaking, nostalgic, and at times darkly funny story of heartbreaking loss and redemption, the rising of inner strength despite staggering odds, and the power of never giving up that is El Camino. SPOILERS AHEAD: in El Camino, Jesse Pinkman gets the chance to start over in a place that matches his soul, and we get to watch him claw his way to get there. It’s actually the ending I always imagined, and hoped against hope, that he would have after the end of Breaking Bad. That he would find Walt’s money (although he doesn’t actually get his hands on Mr. White’s lost money, in a cool twist I won’t give away, he DOES manage to get his hands on some green, thanks to an unlikely source) and get safely away, obtain a new identity courtesy of Mr. Vac himself, Robert Forster (who was pitch perfect, and delivered as one half of one of the best scenes of the movie and my personal fav., as he and Jesse finally come face to face for the first time), and go to Alaska the last frontier, to be given the greatest earned gift he could have received: a chance to start over from scratch. He deserved a happy ending. And courtesy of the genius that is Vince Gilligan, he got it. I couldn’t be more pleased. This movie is a love letter to us the faithful fans, who never stopped hoping for Jesse’s happy ending.