Miguel Wants to Fight

Likeable, low-budget homage to Napolean Dynamite, My Bodyguard, and Three O’Clock High. Unlike a lot of high school kids, Miguel’s focus isn’t to party or find a date, it’s to start a fight - not to exact revenge or anything, but as a rite of passage. To become a man. The days of a fist-fight being an important milestone to manhood are old-fashioned and not so dramatically compelling. But the fights themselves are elaborate set pieces lifted from famous karate movies and starring his friends. So it seems the rite of passage for the filmmakers was to DIRECT a big fancy fight scene and showcase it. “Only when you direct a karate scene will you know you’re a man.” – some Hulu guru, probably.