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Shottas
A raw urban drama about two friends raised on the dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Biggs and Wayne take on the "Shotta" way of life to survive. As young boys, they begin a life of crime, eventually moving to the US where they begin a ruthless climb from the bottom. They remain bound to each other by their shottas loyalty as they aggressively take control of the Jamaican underworld.
Release : | 2002 |
Rating : | 6.1 |
Studio : | Destination Films, Access Pictures, Jean Silvera Films, |
Crew : | Production Design, Set Decoration, |
Cast : | Louie Rankin Wyclef Jean Jabba Lennox Lewis DJ Khaled |
Genre : | Adventure Drama Action Crime |
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Excellent, Without a doubt!!
Excellent but underrated film
A waste of 90 minutes of my life
It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
Have you ever been to the toilet and throw everything you got. Shottas is the movie for you my friend, it's a non-stop 95 minutes of pure tacos mixed with burritos and some good Chinese stuff that you'll find in you toilet. Worse gangster movie never made ! Oh okay I have to made 10 lines for finishing my review on this nice piece of cr*p that my friend love. Finally the good thing I learn in this movie is that my friend who propose me this movie is a stupid hollow sh*t-head. You'll learn in this movie who black have no sense for business and you will discover that it is not with beautiful cars that your film will be good. if you want to watch a movie that you will never regret listening roadhouse baby with pat sweaz. pow
OK, so contrary to many reviews this movie is not as bad as many say it is. I mean if you are into the gangsta / mob genre this would be an awesome movie. Let me first say that I appreciate the fact that they used REAL Jamaicans to play the role of a Jamaican, at least for the latter part at least. Being Jamaican I have a pet peeve about FAKE Jamaican accents in movies. I do not believe there is anything more annoying and #1 turn off in movies.Moving on. The movie starts with an ill developed friendship. There is so much more depth that could have been added to the friendship storyline that would make for a much stronger storyline further down. Jumping some twenty years ahead left many unanswered questions that was not answered even at the end of the movie.Kymani Marley did an excellent job I must say! The other actors were great also but he was my favorite for what he did with this story in terms of the accents. He made it believable. But Kymani when they made you into some ninja jumping matrix superhuman towards the end was not only unrealistic but completely stupid.There was not much light shun on the drug trade in the USA or Jamaica. There was too much killing making this flick into a pumped blood and gore film. Story lines were not developed entirely but certainly not an awful movie.
Shottas is not the greatest movie made nor is it the worst movie made. It's an honest effort from a no name director thats trying to make his mark. If you didn't know , Shottas was a huge underground bootleg hit before it finally came officially available thanks to Sony in January of this year. Obviously Sony saw it fit to push this underground classic. West Indians will appreciate this movie more than anyone else because it shows a dark but real side of what goes on in the Jamaican underground crime scene. Yes this is probably the darkest film to come out of Jamaica , but at the same time it also is probably the best. If you keep up with Jamaican cinema you should know most of their gangster films. "The harder they come" , "Third world cop" are more than likely number 2 and 3 under Shottas.
Shottas seemed kind of pointless to me. I mean, music, cars, half naked woman, guns, sex, money, you know the regular add some yawdies inna it and what you get: A pointless, gun happy Jamaican movie which I'm tired of seeing. It seems that the only thing you see we come up with. The storyline wasn't good enough for me to enjoy the watch. Me being a Jamaican Canadian, I feel a little disappointed that this movie did so well in the eyes of a lot of people I know but really Jamaica, we can do so much better. The acting from what I remember was actually good.I loved Mad Max. He was very watchable. He was different. His character had the most depth to him. So if more time was spent into the storyline, character development,editing and plotting, then this movie would have been really good, but personally, I was left empty after watching it.But if you like the things that I stated already then you'll enjoy it. Actually you'll absolutely love it. I know a lot of people who likes it and some people who feel the way I feel. But everyone has their own opinion