Best movie of this year hands down!

To me, this movie is perfection.

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

While the storyline told in this movie was rather predictable and very straight forward, actually to the point of being generic, then it still turned out to be a rather entertaining movie.And that was because of the characters in the movie, because they were nicely fleshed out, and they had cast some very nice actors and actresses for perform the various roles and characters in the movie. and there was a good on-screen chemistry between them.It was especially nice to see Tim Allen in a role such as the one he had in this movie, because he nailed it with his performance.This was a nice surprise of a movie, because I had no expectations to it when I happened to come across it on Netflix, definitely worth a watch.If you enjoy offbeat movies then "El Camino Christmas" is a movie for you, no doubt about it.

It's not that I regret watching El Camino Christmas, it's just an average movie, nothing special to it, nothing that will make you remember it. In fact I'd better write it down that I already saw it because otherwise I might watch it again in a couple of months because I totally forgot about it, and I don't want to watch it again. It's just not good enough, and it's certainly not a comedy, or maybe I don't get that kind of humor because I didn't laugh once. The story isn't terrible but again nothing special neither. The acting could be much better with this cast. I think that not all the actors were that thrilled to play in this movie. The only good thing about this movie is that they show the police as dumb and triggerhappy, that's exactly how I see the American police. Other than that it's pretty dull.

First thing I'd like to say is that I tend to enjoy most movies. If a film is able keep my attention, and overpowers the modern trend of checking one's phone, then I almost always consider it a smashing success. El Camino Christmas is an enjoyable yet surprisingly dark dramatic thriller. If you watched the Netflix trailer then you may find the tone of the overall film less comedic then advertised. But that does not surprise me though, because most the the Netflix trailers are horrible or incredibly misleading. I going to guess that director David E. Talbert is a Quentin Tarantino fan and the films (Reservoir Dogs/The Hateful Eight) really helped inspire this project. I was going into the film expecting the whole thing to be a Bottle Movie but was pleasantly surprised when I realized it wasn't. The first 45 minutes to an hour of the film is mostly set-up that helps establish just exactly who/what all the main characters are. Then the rest of the film takes place within a single location with the occasional cut away to the other leads who are located directly outside of Vicinte's Liquor Mart (the bottle).Pros: + The cast is absolutely stacked. Kurtwood Smith was great playing Red Foreman as a grumpy sherif in charge of babysitting the standard clueless Dax Shepard (this due provides the majority of the comedy). The young leads, Luke Grimes and Michelle Mylett, both hold their own incredibly well. LetterKenny fans will be happy to see Mylett getting more work, I imagine she'll be doing more things after this. Vincent D'Onofrio has truly perfected the art of the antagonist and shines again as a drunk cop. And to round it out Tim Allen played my favorite character, the drunk veteran Charlie, who loves to slur his way through Christmas songs while sipping on beers and bumping into strangers. I'm probably showing my age here but Tim Allen has only ever been Santa Claus and Buzz Lightyear to me so watching him play a very rated R role was incredibly refreshing.+ The plot has a Fargo-ish vibe and once the story got going I couldn't take my attention off the screen.+ Semi-modern-day-Western that replaces a 'Stranger on a Horse' entering a town, with a 'Stranger in an El Camino' entering a town.Cons: Jessica Alba was just there. She looks great but didn't really add anything. And they definitely made her pregnant just to use the "baby on Christmas" cliche.I am personally not the biggest fan of overly 'happy endings' so this may not be a con for others. But I felt the conclusion was somewhat unrealistic but it was still satisfying and hardly a con.Overall if I had to give El Camino Christmas some parent's I'd say its the offspring of No Country for Old Men & Die Hard. I'm a sucker for the 'wrong-place-wrong-time' plot driven stories so this one will most likely become a favorite of mine and maybe even a Christmas regular.

Strange movie, just 90 minutes of nothingnessIt's not funny so can't be a comedy, it's not a horror, thriller, drama.. I just don't know what the aim was for this.There was one gun fight i thought was funny, but apart from that i don't even think it was trying to be funny, there were no jokes, funny situations. there were no surprises, no shocks... the acting was good, everything looked and sounded good, there just isn't anything to see.for such a simple storyline, it just made no sense. I really hope it wasn't trying to by funny or clever, surely if it was someone would have said while making it that they should put some clever or funny lines in. not worth watching.