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Shottas

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4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

This was Cess Silva's 1st film and it was a very good movie, it explores the life of two Jamaican childhood best friends who grew up dirt poor & raggedy in the slums of Kingston, Jamaica. The friends (Biggs & Wayne)shared common goals, and each wanted to be rich with money, power & respect and wouldn't stop until they got to the top and had the best life possible. The movie takes you on a roller coaster ride while it explores friendship, loyalty, ambition, crime, pain, love, deceit/betrayal and teaches you a lessons. The loyalty, love and respect Wayne, Biggs & Mad Max have for one another as friends is almost farfetched nowadays, no one got jealous of the other one, no hating or backstabbing, just true brotherly love. They were down for each other and fearless. At the end Biggs learned a painful lesson when his demons finally catch up to him and he has to pay in many ways that money nor fine luxuries can't buy. I'll admit it was an underground movie and leaves alot to be desired which may come if there's a sequel, but being this is the director's first movie, I give him 5 stars for effort and for the delectable eye candy (Kymani Marley & Spragga Benz). In his next effort I'm sure he'll have a plot and other essentials in a good movie.
This is a good movie and anyone from the hood, the Caribbean and born African American can definately relate, I feel as though this movie is just as good as Scarface, The Godfather and Belly for that much, these rappers and artists that have no formal acting coaching did a superb job!

Sorry to be the only negative review but personally, I thought the movie was gratuitously violent. Yes I know that this movie is as close to the real world of shottas as you can get. I am Jamaican and everything in this movie seems to be based on fact. It gives you a very good idea of shotta life-style from their point of view. All I'm saying that there was a lot of needless violence; violence put in to make the movie more gritty. A lot of people got shot in the head. Is this shotta life? Yes it is! It is important that we see the blood and brain matter to understand that he got shot in the head, no it isn't.

Someone else mentioned that there should be a part 2 to this movie. I agree, make a part 2, but based on the underground success of this movie, how about a part 2 that shows more points of view? It would it interesting to explore how the shotta life affects his family. Does anyone remember the famous shotta who had a brother who was an English professor? Or how one gave his mother unlimited credit cards for Neiman Marcus in the States?

I wanted to give this movie three stars but I have to give it four just for the yardies.

TO 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

It went from bootlegg to major. it was good enough to make it major it's gotta be good enough for you. it's like rags to riches...

This is the best Jamaican movies ever. I can watch this movie a million times and never get bored. A+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

This was a tuff movie. I enjoyed this movie and I thought that it was well worth the wait for the original version even after watching the movie several times before. It was also cool that the movie included subtitles in English for viewers who do not understand or speak Patois. This movie will probably not be rated as high as "The Harder They Come," but it should be ranked as one of the top Jamaican rude boy films of all time as well as the coming out of artists such as Assassin, Spragga Benz, Kymani Marley, Louie Ranking, who were either already established stars or were on their way to stardom. Finally, this movie would not have been as great if it did not feature the great Louie Ranking himself. He showed that in the shottas world, there are nuff bad man; but also, to every bad man, there are nuff badda man. Man ah man ah bad man......

If you like Belly, State Property, Blue Hill Av, Scarface or any of them then YOU GOTTA GET DIS!!!!

I love this movie! The soundtrack is wonderful, the storyline is great! A must see for all yardies!!

I love this movie. Ladies be prepared to fall in love with Kymani Marley. It's a good movie & it's crazy because things like this do occur in the world today maybe even worse.

I wasnt expecting to much of this movie but it turned out to be really good. Ky-Mani and Spragga did a great job imo. Its kind of like a Jamaicanized Belly. Everyone has already told you what its about so I'll skip all that but I really enjoyed this movie and ended up buying it