Shottas

Shottas (2002)

  • 19% of critics liked it
    (16 reviews)

  • 89% of users liked it
    (8,932 ratings)

Grammy-nominated reggae artist Kymani Marley and Jamaican dancehall star Spragga Benz star in director Cess Silvera's tale of two Kingston gangsters looking to make a name for themselves on the mean streets of Kingston. Homegrown gangers Biggs (Marley) and Wayne (Benz) have paid their dues in… More

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Drama, Action & Adventure
In Theaters
Nov 3, 2006 Wide
Sony Pictures Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • John Anderson, Newsday

    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.

  • Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

    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.

  • Neil Genzlinger, New York Times

    Stars from reggae and other musical worlds give acting a try in Shottas, a witless, misogynistic, gratuitously violent, drug-culture-worshiping film.

  • Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter

    Writer-director Cess Silvera delivers an empty, bullet-riddled exploitation combo of attitude and poses.

  • Evelyn McDonnell, Miami Herald

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

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    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.

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