This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist.Oh, to be young, insecure, and looking for a fight.
This is the premise of Hulu’s Miguel Wants to Fight which attempts to riff on the well-worn coming-of-age movie though never makes consistent enough contact with the targets it is swinging for.
Directed by Oz Rodriguez, who previously made last year’s Vampires vs.
The Bronx that still has a bit more bite than other recent vampire films of late, it is ultimately undone by rather standard writing that undercuts its already hit-or-miss references to classic action cinema.
Written by Jason Concepcion and Shea Serrano, it centers on a group of friends who discover one of their party has never backed them up in a scuffle.
They proceed to do everything…
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