Shottas (2002)

Director:

Cess Silvera

Writer:

Cess Silvera (written by)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Crime

Tagline:

Friendship, loyalty & greed.

Plot:

Cast

Ky-Mani Marley	...	Biggs
Spragga Benz	...	Wayne
Paul Campbell	...	Mad Max
Louie Rankin	...	Teddy Bruckshut
Wyclef Jean	...	Richie Effs
Screechie Bop	...	Gussy
San San	...	Raquel
Jabba	...	Dangles
Assassin	...	Blacka
Beast	...	Sealy
Fabien Dominique	...	Abbey
J.R. Silvera	...	Young Biggs
Carlton Grant Jr.	...	Young Wayne
Lennox Lewis	...	Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tyson Beckford
Adam Doench	...	White Miami Undercover Agent
Lyndale V. Pettus	...	Black Miami Undercover Agent
Munair Zacca

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence, sexuality/nudity, language and drug content.

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA | Jamaica

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Germany:18 (JK/SPIO) | Singapore:M18 | Netherlands:16 | Argentina:16 | USA:R | Australia:MA

Filming Locations:

Kingston, Jamaica

Company:

Access Pictures

Goofs:

Anachronisms: In the first 10 minutes of the movie, where it was still based on the year 1978, young Wayne was seen taking a gun out of one side of a sneaker. The sneaker was a black and white Air Jordan 12 which would not appear to the shelves until the fall of 1996, some 18 years later.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Shottas for Life (2007) (V)

GOOD VIEWING

If you like shoot em ups then this will appeal to you and to be real you shouldnt be watching if you don't i supppose thats why it is called shottas. It basically follows the fortunes of two young men who grow up as close as brothers. They are the original shottas two youts who grow in the ghetto and use ghetto menatlity to get them out. They go to America and ive a good life for a while until all the bad deeds in their past consume them.

On the whole the film is very entertaining and to some degree real( however the last time i was in kingston i saw a father beat hs son for playing guns) it highlights not only the poorness of Jamaican people but also the political entities that keep them poor and how these entities use the so called bad men of yard to put them in power.

Kymani and Spragga's acting is a very good effort and if the opportunity arises for them to continue they will no doubt become very good at it, i am not too sure who wrote the dialouge but it is very real and it shows "wayne" to have a wicked sense of humour.

Oh and watch out for Max and the sick mentality he has which is another way of projecting the futility and destruction caused by the greed to be the richest and baddest man.