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Shottas |  | Director: Cess Silvera
Actors: Ky-Mani Marley, Spragga Benz, Paul Campbell, Louie Rankin, Wyclef Jean
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.94
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Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 10161
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 99
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: COLD13607D
UPC: 043396136076
EAN: 0043396136076
ASIN: B000JRYOPG
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Release Date: January 2, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
AN UNAPOLOGETICALLY RAW, URBAN DRAMA ABOUT FRIENDSHIP, LOYALTY & GREED SET IN THE LIFE OF TWO 'SHOTTAS' (JAMAICAN TERM FOR GANGSTER) TRYING TO LIVE THEIR DREAM.
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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
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 SHOTTAS DVD June 14, 2010
Nicole Torres (JACKSONVILLE, FL USA)
FOR THE MOST PART I ENJOYED PURCHASE..THE ONLY THING TO MATTER IS THATIN ONE PART OF THE MOVIE EXACTLY HALFWAY THROUGH THE MOVIE IT STOPS PLAYING. AND IN EVRY DVD PLAYER AND PLAYSTATION 3 I PUT IT IN..IT MAKES ME START THE MOVIE OVER FROM THE BEGINNING AND DOES THE SAME THING EVERY TIME IN THE SAME SPOT. BUT NONTHELESS I GOT MY PRODUCT.
 shottas May 11, 2010
Sharon Marton (London)
Hello.
The dvd shottas that i did order i would have to send it back as it does not play on my dvd play i do not know why,as the orders play, it keep on saying that this is not the reigon on which it should play, so i would like to know if i can send it back, and if i will get another one, i live in london,please get back to me.
P:S this dvd shottas i have send before so that is why i would one for myself.
Sharon Marton
loved it May 10, 2010
Medea Dennis
needed this item days after ordering it and it came within three days of ordering. FAST
The American and Jamaican underworld opened up April 19, 2010
Pork Chop (Lisbon, Portugal)
Shottas (2002) is a movie that unfolds in the American and Jamaican
underworld involving a kingpin with armed associates, clique,
entourage and million dollar lifestyle. This is intended for a
middle-of-the-road, general audience with mass appeal, featuring
gang animosities.
Some will be taken aback from the frequency of Jamaican slang, such
as "bloodclot", or a reference to Day-O (Banana Boat song) or the
shot caller (shotta.) There's also the matter of the pronunciation
by the locals, incomprehensible, suggesting a style derived from
mass illiteracy.
Surprisingly, the release is not 16 x 9, which is unfortunate, as
many angles, the editing, the flow of the script and of the story
if often glossy, well chosen, filmed and delightful.
There is nothing lost in the soundtrack, from an eclectic,
balanced, diversified and eager for risk series of numbers.
The story is food for thought, ranging from the characters - all
miscreants and juvenile delinquents that are trigger happy - such
that the special F/X dept uses up dozens of blood packs over the
course of 90 mins, to weighing the likelihood that a kingpin can
make $7 mil merely from shakedowns of other gangs and legit
businesses.
At not time is there any retaliation law enforcement. There is no
tension, either, among the gangsters, about the legitimacy of their
conduct, operations, rivalry, showing an euphoria from beginning to
end, ranging from scenes at clubs to outdoor festivities and indoor
scenes. A non-stop impunity for all conduct is the case, public and
private, in terms of rubouts, gunplay, car jackings, and
shootouts.
Viewers are made to see a number of "toys" used by the
protagonists, ranging from a power yacht, a Lamborghini, Mercedes
Benz, Cadillac Escalade, Porsche, Rolex, etc.
The director's boldness is clear, in exposing the underlying
violence affecting much of Jamaica, and in expatriate communities
who know of no other livelihood than crime, firing pistols and
shotguns. The ugliness and senseless killing, is in plain sight
and the darkness is juxtaposed tightly with hedonistic moments.
The ghetto, as shown, comprises people who are one-dimensional,
emotionally shallow, closed to cultural sources that normally,
permeate people's lives, ( TV, sports, religion, politics, book
authors.) The charactes seem to never have heard of those things,
or been influenced by any of them. The exception is when a
politician, (mingling with gangs perhaps to gain an upper hand on
rivals), turns against his underworld henchmen when they go rogue
and become front page news.
At the end, many will wonder how is it the characters are still
walking the streets, and not in an asylum.
The oversimplification of crime may also be a turn off, not least
of which because some of the biggest and most profitable
masterminds never show themselves, or commit violence personally,
Finally, Ky-Mani Marley's acting is promising, as Biggs.
SHOTTAS March 8, 2010
Susan A. Fay (Pittsburgh,PA)
This movie has sub titles but don't let that stop you from getting it. My 21 year old grandson watches it over and over again.
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