Fresh
The movie is harrowing and hard to forget. But just when you think there's no hope, Sauvaire throws in a tearful moment of redemption.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Johnny Mad Dog
2008 · 1h 37m · N/A
Drama, History, War
Directed by
Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Overview
A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an unnamed African country.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
80%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Sauvaire, hesitating between a protest picture and a glam-squalid imagist orgy, only succeeds in scattering human rubble across the screen.
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice
Rotten
Basically, talented French director Jean-Stephane Sauvaire has too much style on his hands. His film isn't as amorally grandiose as City of God. Nor does it achieve the hulking tragedy of Gomorrah.
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Fresh
The film sees war as a deadener of moral and physical inhibition, a paradoxical state where there are no winners or losers, just the living and the dead. Stunning.
David Jenkins, Time Out
Fresh
A fearsome plunge into the world of child soldiers in present-day West Africa.
Justin Chang, Variety
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