Johnny Mad Dog

Name: Johnny Mad Dog
Genre: Drama, War
Released: January 21, 2011
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 45

2011

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"DIA" Productions GmbH & Co. KG | Release Date: January 21, 2011 | Unrated

Summary: Children soldiers go a little mad in an African war zone.

Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire

Genre(s): Drama, War

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 98 min

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Empire Nev Pierce

Jan 18, 2011

Grubby and yet vital, it stays with you. Read full review

Wesley Morris

Jan 18, 2011

Basically, talented French director Jean-Stéphane 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." Read full review

Justin Chang

Jan 18, 2011

There's no doubt Johnny Mad Dog means to leave the viewer with a visceral impression of its terrors, on that it largely succeeds. Whether that accomplishment deserves praise is more of an open question. Read full review

Keith Uhlich

Jan 18, 2011

An hour and half of comparable barbarity follows-all of it monotonous, none of it enlightening. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Jan 18, 2011

An assaultive fiction about Liberian child soldiers made with boys and girls who actually fought in that country's recent war, left me wrung out - furious, confused, deep in thought. Read full review

Nick Pinkerton

Jan 18, 2011

Sauvaire, hesitating between a protest picture and a glam-squalid imagist orgy, only succeeds in scattering human rubble across the screen. Read full review

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cinemaquote

Jan 30, 2011

I wrote this for NYT reader review: I cannot take my eyes off this film. Released in 2008 it finally hits US Theaters. You should make time to see this film. Produced by Matthieu Kassovitz (yes Amelie) and directed by Jean Stephane Sauvaire: Johnny Mad Dog hasn't yet achieved its momentum,I wrote this for NYT reader review: I cannot take my eyes off this film. Released in 2008 it finally hits US Theaters. You should make time to see this film. Produced by Matthieu Kassovitz (yes Amelie) and directed by Jean Stephane Sauvaire: Johnny Mad Dog hasn't yet achieved its momentum, yet it so deserves it. Plus bonus: Abel Ferrara interviews handsome Sauvaire for @filmannex.
Praise is unnecessary, you'll simply NEED TO SEE this movie| http://tinyurl.com/6jq3kvn @cinemaquote… Expand

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