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Shottas For Life
Description
Shottas For Life is a hehind-the-scenes featurette of 'Shottas', an unapologetic raw urban drama about two young men, Wayne (Spragga Benz) and Biggs (Kymani Marley), who grow up together on the tough and dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica.
Shottas For Life is a hehind-the-scenes featurette of 'Shottas', an unapologetic raw urban drama about two young men, Wayne (Spragga Benz) and Biggs (Kymani Marley), who grow up together on the tough and dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica.
Actors:
Ky-Mani Marley, Spragga Benz, Paul Campbell, Louie Rankin, Wyclef Jean
Genre:
Documentary
Director:
Michael Gillis
Michael Gillis
Country:
United States
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Reel.com
November 03, 2006
De Palma and Scorsese breathed new life into the crime genre; Silvera just embalms it.
Newark Star-Ledger
November 10, 2006
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.
Chicago Tribune
November 03, 2006
Who says they don't write good women's roles anymore? The females on view fall into two prototypes: Hot Tub Chippie No. 2 or Plastic Surgery Fire Sale Victim No. 3.
November 03, 2006
Crime flicks featuring nihilistic thugs engaged in futile, sometimes humorously soulless violence accompanied by a hip soundtrack aren't a commodity. And nothing in this energetic, hollow movie boosts its marketability or appeal.
June 21, 2007
A straight-ahead Jamaican gansta flick, it's a lot of fun, if empty.
Newsday
November 14, 2006
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.
New York Times
November 10, 2006
Stars from reggae and other musical worlds give acting a try in Shottas, a witless, misogynistic, gratuitously violent, drug-culture-worshiping film.
November 03, 2006
Even with its microbudget there's enough blood, booty and bling to satisfy fans of the genre. It's also never dull, thanks to Silvera's restless pacing and a great reggae soundtrack.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
November 02, 2006
It would have been a more worthy effort to get past the lifestyle sheen to the emotional undercurrents of men who choose violence at every turn.
November 03, 2006
Unless you love senseless violence and gratuitous shots of fake breasts, you might want to listen with your eyes closed.
November 02, 2006
Shottas, a Jamaican-set underworld flick executive produced by musician Wyclef Jean and being given a pat-on-the-head theatrical release in advance of its DVD peddling from Sony Pictures later this year, is proof that a movie can at least on some l
Hollywood Reporter
November 08, 2006
Writer-director Cess Silvera delivers an empty, bullet-riddled exploitation combo of attitude and poses.
