![]() Emulating a “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”-esque persona of the dim-witted police officer, Shepard provides some form of incentive to watch this film. One of the few highlights of the film was a genuinely hilarious performance by Dax Shepard (“CHIPS”) as Deputy Billy Calhoun. Mistaken for a drug dealer by the foolish local law-enforcement, Eric ends up barricaded in the liquor store with five townies on Christmas Eve. A young, mysterious man, Eric Roth (Luke Grimes, “The Magnificent Seven”), rolls into town in a blue convertible in search of the father he never knew. A Netflix release.The film takes place in the quiet, desert town of El Camino, Nevada. Talbert, script by Theodore Melfi, Christopher Wehner. The drunk provides the best one-line review for this mess, one a pretty talented cast should have taken to heart before taking Netflix’s money.Ĭast: Dax Shepard, Jessica Alba, Luke Grimes, Kurtwood Smith, Tim Allen, Vincent D’OnofrioĬredits:Directed by David E. We’re treated to incompetent cops yelling “Shots FIRED!” when they’re the ones doing the shooting, Vietnam War stories and “We Got Married in a Walmart” on the soundtrack.Īll in a little Nevada mountain town where it never snows (hint hint), where the town drunk goes by “Bukowski, Charles” and dozes off, topless, so that his burning cigarette wakes him up before he sets the place and himself on fire. Jessica Alba’s a very pregnant small-market TV reporter who smells her “big break” in this story.Īnd lonely Vincente ( Emilio Rivera), who owns the liquor mart, still mourns his late wife. They put all their wit into sketching in one or two-scene characters suck as Kate’s trashy mom Jewels ( Kimberly Quinn) on the prowl for a new man - “You want somethin’ in life, you gotta GROWL for it.” Theodore Melfi and Christopher Wehner cooked up this script, and couldn’t figure out a way to unravel that arrest, the prisoner’s “escape” and the ensuing Christmas Eve hostage situation that wasn’t tone deaf and bloody. We’ve seen how worthless Carol (D’Onofrio) has became as a cop, how he and hapless Billy (Shepard) arrested the “stranger” on suspicion of making meth because he bought a bottle of Drano. They’re all thrown together when the cops railroad the young guy, which devolves into a hostage situation with the trigger happy deputy and bystanders trapped along with Eric, “the suspect.” Michelle Mylett is Kate, a single mom with an “on the spectrum” son she has to bring to work at Vincente’s Liquors. Kurtwood Smith is the jaded, insult-prone, hired-too-many-relatives sheriff, Dax Shepard is his well-meaning boob of a deputy and Vincent D’Onofrio plays the hothead, drunken burnout deputy. “This a ’71? That’s the year I found our lord and savior, Jesus Christ. The foul-mouthed drunk ( Tim Allen) who now lives in the old man’s last known address is a ‘Nam vet, more than happy to hustle drinks out of the kid in the vintage Chevelle. It wastes a lot of funny folks in a deathly debacle of a farce, a bullet-riddled bloodbath that, like its central situation, “didn’t have to go this way.”Ī young guy, Eric (Luke Grimes) rolls into town, looking for the father he never knew. No sense ruining Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanza.īut truth be told, there is no “good” time to watch this sour, mostly-humorless holiday hostage “comedy.” ![]() ![]() The only time to watch “El Camino Christmas” is far-removed from the Christmas season. ![]()
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