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- 2011
- Espace Sarou
- 1 h 38 m
- 2011
- Espace Sarou
- 1 h 38 m
Directed By: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Written By: Emmanuel Dongala, Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
- 2011
- Espace Sarou
- 1 h 38 m
- 2011
- Espace Sarou
- 1 h 38 m
Johnny Mad Dog
45
8.3
Directed By: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Written By: Emmanuel Dongala, Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
45
33% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
17% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
45
33% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
17% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
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."
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.
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.
Sauvaire, hesitating between a protest picture and a glam-squalid imagist orgy, only succeeds in scattering human rubble across the screen.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 6 User Ratings
8.3
83% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
17% Mixed
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1 Rating
0% Negative
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User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 6 User Ratings
8.3
83% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
17% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
0% Negative
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Production Company
MNP Entreprise,
Explicit Films,
Scope Pictures,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
Canal+
Release Date Jan 21, 2011
Duration 1 h 38 m
Awards
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Stockholm Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Skip City International D-Cinema Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
