'El Camino'

'El Camino' NR- **

Writers: Salvatore Interlandi and Erik S. Weigel
Director: Erik S. Weigel
Starring: Elizabeth Moss, Leo Fitzpatrick, Wes Studi, Christopher Denham


"El Camino" is a very small independent movie that is amateurish and full of bad acting with a hollow story. The only good part of the movie is due to the Cable series "Mad Men" and that is the performance of Elizabeth Moss. Moss plays Peggy Olsen in "Mad Men" and she is the real deal as she gives the only natural performance in this movie. There are a lot of great talented new faces in that great show which is a superior show mainly because of that acting. Moss is an unconventional beauty with piercing blue eyes who knows how to hold the screen. This movie was painfully bad but Moss was a delight creating a character we feel is warm, troubled but a good person. I see many big things ahead for Moss even a leading role in a movie. She shows great promise and steals this movie away from a wooden Leo Fitzpatrick (Larry Clark's "Kids" and "Bully") and a blah story. She has that "it" factor that lights up the screen and makes you want to follow her even through dreck like this. "El Camino" is now on DVD.