Excellent but underrated film

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This is one of my favourite gangster flicks. It follows Biggs, from his childhood in Waterhouse Jamaica, to being an adult in Miami that is deported back to Jamaica, only to return to Miami with is life-long friend Wayne who was once deported back to Jamaica himself and has made an empire there. Paul Campbell, Louie Rankin, Spragga Benz and Kymani Marley all do great jobs with their character. From the moment Biggs witnesses how his long time friend Wayne deals with business in Jamaica, Mr. Chin scene, it is a non-stop shootem' up film that is thoroughly enjoyable if this is your flavourThe previous reviewer obviously doesn't like this genre of film, and each to his own. But this film deserves to be reviewed by a fan of the genre so others with similar tastes get a real picture of what this movie is all about.If you like shootem' up gangster flicks this is a must see!!!!!

I had read much about this film before I actually saw it. It has been circulating around for quite some time and has subsequently gained a cult following. With that in mind I was actually looking forward to seeing this film.This movie could have been good. Instead it squandered any quality on cheap cliché and stereotypes. It comes off as Belly light. Only Ky-Mani Marleys' and Louie Rankins acting is any good. The rest of the cast is your typical b-movie thespian. Everything is very formulaic in this film. On a brighter note the soundtrack is very good. I am sure a lot of people would enjoy this movie. But even for mindless shoot em up entertainment this film falls flat.

I read that the movie is very bad. I don't agree. Some scenes are filmed like soap-opera but in general the movie avoids all the clichés from the Hollywood films. I recently saw Miami Vice from Michael Mann and I hated it. For Hollywood there are only good guys and bad guys. Just that, nothing in between. Instead in Shottas shows you exactly how gangsters are created. Created by imitation. Dreaming of a nice life that will never come. Music score is very good and Marley is good even he is not a real pro-actor. Some of the gangsters look like if they were taken from the real shanty-towns of Kingston. That is good. Shows authenticity.

This is the worst movie I've ever seen. I'm having trouble identifying the worst part of the movie, so I guess I'd just go in random order: The quality of the film itself is exceedingly low. I've seen a lot of rapsploitation movies, but usually there's some move toward making them visually palatable. Shottas makes no pretense in that direction. No one in this movie can act. The sex scenes are awful. Totally unsexy. Weird angles. Obvious musical choices. The patois is pretty clear in most places, but the few time it would have been nice to read the subtitles, they weren't clear (up against the wrong color on the screen). And the subtitles skipped whole blocks of text. I could go on, but I'm at work. Seriously, though. If you have to choose between watching this movie, or shoving dull pencils through your eye sockets, grab the pencils.