A fearsome plunge into the world of child soldiers in present-day West Africa, "Johnny Mad Dog" initially repulses with its brutalizing depictions of civil-war carnage. A fearsome plunge into the ...

Johnny Mad Dog is a 2008 historical war movie directed by Jean-Stephane Sauvre. It is based on the novel “Johnny chien méchant” by Emmanuel Dongala. The movie follows a gang of young boys going from ...

The death of Jonathan Adair from a drugs overdose is the latest curse to befall members of a young sectarian gang his father Johnny Adair shaped in his own image. Known as the ‘Hallion Battalion’, the ...

There’s much to admire if little to enjoy in this relentlessly violent, harrowingly realistic 2008 feature about child soldiers in Liberia’s most recent civil war. Fifteen-year-old Johnny Mad Dog ...

Sauvaire’s drama about a corrupt group of child soldiers fighting in an unnamed African country has City of God aspirations, but never really finds a story of its own, despite many dynamic moments ...

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