Grubby and yet vital, it stays with you.
Johnny Mad Dog
France, Belgium, Liberia · 2008
1h 37m
Director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Starring Christopher Minie, Daisy Victoria Vandy, Dagbeh Tweh, Barry Chernoh
Genre Drama, History, War
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Fighting a war in an unnamed African country, a 15-year-old child soldier named Johnny Mad Dog leads an armed group of young boys on a brutal rampage toward the capital, aiming to take over the city. The group crosses paths with Laokolé, a teenage girl trying to escape the city with her father and brother.
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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.
An hour and half of comparable barbarity follows-all of it monotonous, none of it enlightening.
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
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.
Village Voice by Nick Pinkerton
Sauvaire, hesitating between a protest picture and a glam-squalid imagist orgy, only succeeds in scattering human rubble across the screen.
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."
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