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
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Johnny Mad Dog
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
- Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire Director
- Christopher Minie as Johnny Mad Dog
- Daisy Victoria Vandy as Laokole
- Dagbeh Tweh as No Good Advice
- Barry Chernoh as Small Devil
- Cornelius Keagon Cast
- Teddy Boy as Gamin aux oranges
- Careen Moore as Fatmata - Lovelita
- Philip Tokpa as Homme au cochon
- Fanta K. Smith as Mère Ibrahim
- Massiata E. Kenneh as Tanya Toyo
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
76%
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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