Shottas – Gangster (2002)

Shottas – Gangster: Directed by Cess Silvera. With Ky-Mani Marley, Spragga Benz, Louie Rankin, Paul Campbell. Wayne and Biggs grow up together on the tough and dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Eventually moving to Miami, they begin a ruthless climb to the top of a criminal enterprise as they aggressively take control of the Jamaican mob.

“A bit uneven, Shottas suffers from low quality transfers that just add to the filmu0026#39;s problems. My dvd copy would sometimes cut to a black screen that would say: Insert more robbery scenes here. Technical problems aside: the meaningful dialogue is quite slim- character development seems aimed at an increase in robberies, the direction is lop-sided and meandering, never really wanting to show you much more than hot chicks and nice whips(would have made for a nice extended music video). While I did like the music, itu0026#39;s over-used and just sort of u0026quot;thereu0026quot;- didnu0026#39;t do much for the film other than elicit some head-nodding on my part. The Anderson character is a joke-heu0026#39;s a political-bad guy cut-out. And how about that u0026quot;tongue-in-cheeku0026quot; joke about Wyclefu0026#39;s character banking on a music career? Horrible. Did I care what happened at the end of the film to the main characters? Not really, they were bad people who did bad things, a sentiment I held regarding Cess Silverau0026#39;s directing effort.”