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Shottas
Friendship, loyalty & greed.
Friendship, loyalty & greed.
Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama - 2002
6.2
19%
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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.

Details

Rated:
R
Runtime:
95 min
Release date:
27 Feb 2002
Country:
JM, US
Languages:
English, Portuguese
Budget:
$200,000
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
N/A

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
Unless you love senseless violence and gratuitous shots of fake breasts, you might want to listen with your eyes closed.
– Evelyn McDonnell,
Miami Herald,
3 Nov 2006
rotten:
Writer-director Cess Silvera delivers an empty, bullet-riddled exploitation combo of attitude and poses.
– Sheri Linden,
Hollywood Reporter,
8 Nov 2006
rotten:
Stars from reggae and other musical worlds give acting a try in Shottas, a witless, misogynistic, gratuitously violent, drug-culture-worshiping film.
– Neil Genzlinger,
New York Times,
10 Nov 2006
rotten:
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.
– Stephen Whitty,
Newark Star-Ledger,
10 Nov 2006
rotten:
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.
– John Anderson,
Newsday,
14 Nov 2006
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