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DVD : ShottasIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Ky-Mani Marley, Spragga Benz, Paul Campbell (IV), Louie Rankin, Wyclef Jean directed by: Cess Silvera  List Price: $14.94 Amazon.com's Price: $9.49 You Save: $5.45 (36%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Sony EAN: 0043396136076 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Sony Pictures Region Code: 99 Release Date: January 02, 2007 Running Time: 95 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: 2002 Sales Rank: 4238 MPN: COLD13607D Related Items: Editorial Review: Amazon.com: In the tradition of Scarface and The Harder They Come, Shottas is an unapologetic raw urban drama about two friends raised on the dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Biggs (Kymani Marley) and Wayne (Spragga Benz) take on the "shotta" (Jamaican term for gangster) way of life to survive. As young boys, they begin a life of crime, eventually moving to the U.S., where they begin a ruthless climb from the bottom to the glittering top of a criminal enterprise in a Miami filled with fast cars and gorgeous women. The two men remain fiercely bound by their shottas loyalty as they aggressively take control of the Jamaican underworld. Beyond Shottas at Amazon.com
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Amazon.com: In Jamaican patois, a gangster is a "shotta" or "shot-caller." Like The Harder They Come and Third World Cop, Cess Silvera choreographs his crime drama to a reggae beat. Bob Marley’s son Stephen provides the music, while Wyclef Jean drops by as a dealer. The saga begins in late-1970s Kingston. Teenagers Biggs (J.R. Silvera) and Wayne (Carlton Grant Jr.) have had their fill of poverty, so they get a gun and start looting and shooting like the shottas they idolize. Flash forward 20 years and Biggs (Stephen’s actor/musician brother, Kymani Marley) has just been deported from the States. He picks up where he left off, joining Wayne (DJ Spragga Benz) and the psychopathic Mad Max (Paul Campbell, Dancehall Queen) in the thug life. As with Pacino's Tony Montana, Miami is their ultimate port of call. Silvera acknowledges the debt to Brian De Palma's Scarface, but there isn't as much drama here--just a lot of violence (spurting blood is a running motif). Cinematographer Cliff Charles uses all manner of visual trickery to lively up the joint, like grainy black and white, slow motion, and jump cuts. The soundtrack also helps to keep things moving, but it's hard to feel sympathy for those who feel no sympathy for anyone but themselves. Vicious as he was, Montana still had a smidgen of sensitivity. As with The Harder They Come, this English-language production is subtitled due to strong accents and pervasive slang. --Kathleen C. Fennessy Average Rating:
 Rating:  - SHOT-TAZ!!!IF you liked Scarface and you think Wyclef is a Cornball-this Movie is for you. This movie tells the tale of a couple of Kids in Jamaica who want to fulfill every Ghetto Bastard's dream of becoming Rich. In doing so these boys end up becoming Every Other Ghetto Bastard's dream: Being a SHOTTA...which is the term for Gangster in Jam'Rock. Absurdly Violent(maybe not THAT Bad, but ABSURDLY VIOLENT sounds good...) Hella Violent with MANY MANY allusions to Scarface, which this movie ... Read More Rating:  - actiongreat movie if your even more familiar with jamaica. REAL GRIITY gangsta type movie and the acting isnt bad. ONe of my favs. Rating:  - Review of Shottas The film was ok. But i was thinking that the history was more exciting. But it's a nice movie. Rating: - SHOTTAS GOODTO HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THIS MOVIE, I WAS SHOCKED TO SEE HOW GOOD IT WAS. THE LANGUAGE AND THE ACTUAL REALITY OF THEH LIFESTYLE OVER IN JAMAICA WAS TRUTHFUL. IT WAS WORTH THE BUY Rating:  - Ky - Mani was the best in ShottasThe movie was okay, It really didn't tickle my fancy. Every main character in the film obviously doesn't like a woman of colored - What was that all about? I am totally surprise multi-racial women weren't been betrayed as some type of trophy. Ky- Mani was the man for real though. Browse for similar items by category:
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