Shottas (2006)

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Kingston, Jamaica is a breeding ground for great music, great food, great style and great shottas--young, homegrown Jamaican gangsters. Biggs and Wayne grew up together on the tough and dangerous streets of Kingston. Hoping for a better life, with limited possibilities on the horizon, they rob a soda truck and manage to grab enough money to purchase visas to take them to a better life in the United States. Their dream doesn't go as planned. After hustling in the drug world of Miami gets them … More

Rating: R (strong violence, sexuality/nudity, language and drug content)
Genre: Drama, Action & Adventure
Directed By:
Written By: Cess Silvera
In Theaters:
On DVD: Jan 2, 2007
Runtime:
Sony Pictures

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Critic Reviews for Shottas

All Critics (17) | Top Critics (10)

It's tough to imagine how someone could make a movie about Jamaican gangsterism that's so devoid of political content, but that's hardly Silvestra's biggest problem.

Full Review… | November 14, 2006
Newsday
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Shottas has everything a bad music video should have -- close-ups of foreign sports cars, women with painful-looking implants stepping in and out of hot tubs, ugly men with gold teeth waving around automatics.

Full Review… | November 10, 2006
Newark Star-Ledger
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Stars from reggae and other musical worlds give acting a try in Shottas, a witless, misogynistic, gratuitously violent, drug-culture-worshiping film.

November 10, 2006
New York Times
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Writer-director Cess Silvera delivers an empty, bullet-riddled exploitation combo of attitude and poses.

November 8, 2006
Hollywood Reporter
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Unless you love senseless violence and gratuitous shots of fake breasts, you might want to listen with your eyes closed.

Full Review… | November 3, 2006
Miami Herald
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Who says they don't write good women's roles anymore? The females on view fall into two prototypes: Hot Tub Chippie No. 2 or Plastic Surgery Fire Sale Victim No. 3.

Full Review… | November 3, 2006
Chicago Tribune
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Audience Reviews for Shottas

½

An incredible gangsta tale of two friends that grow up together in the mean streets of Kingston Jamaica and migrates over to the US. See this it is a treasure.

Fascade518
Fascade Fiveoneeight

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dis shit confusin as fuck to undastand considrin its jamaican dilect man. decent gansta flick if you can undastand othawise

spencerstilwell
Spencer Stilwell

Shottas - Jamaican for gangsters. While the movie had potential and some decent moments, ultimately it just feels like a Scarface ripoff.

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Jeff B

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