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Bait
Directed by
Antoine Fuqua
R
2000
1h 59m
Comedy
,
Action
,
and more
5.7
26%
41%
5.7
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An ex-con is used by police to lure a criminal out of hiding.
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Cast of Bait
Jamie Foxx
Alvin Sanders
David Morse
Edgar Clenteen
Robert Pastorelli
Jaster
Doug Hutchison
Bristol
Kimberly Elise
Lisa Hill
David Paymer
Agent Wooly
Mike Epps
Stevie Sanders
Jamie Kennedy
Agent Blum
Nestor Serrano
Agent Boyle
Kirk Acevedo
Ramundo
Jeffrey Donovan
Julio
Megan Dodds
Agent Walsh
Tia Texada
Tika
Neil Crone
Supervisor
Jason Jones
Guard
Martin Roach
Cop
Matthew Witherly
Guard
William Lynn
Night Watchman
Glyn Thomas
Chem-Tech Agent
Victor A. Young
Senator
Bait Ratings & Reviews
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Numbingly incoherent.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It's just respectable trash, and a dress rehearsal for better things ahead.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It's funny and clever, and it grows on you.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Two things pretty much save the movie. The last 40 minutes are well-plotted and paced. And Foxx is enormously likable.
Dallas Morning News
Matt Weitz
If you want a conflicted movie that doesn't know what it is -- or just wish to kill a few hours -- this is for you. Otherwise, keep fishing and cut Bait.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
This film wastes a lot of good actors.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Bait makes a fatal mistake, one this kind of movie should never make unless it actually is The Matrix or Terminator 2: Judgment Day: It's long.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Instead of a tiger in its tank, this vehicle for Foxx has a lot of formula.
Film.com
Sean P. Means
He's hilarious, but through the jokes, you get the sense Foxx knows he deserves better.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Despite its genre trappings, Bait is an entertaining and occasionally clever picture with a crackling peformance by Jamie Foxx.
CNN.com
Paul Tatara
Director Antoine Fuqua ... serves up every cliche in the book.
Film.com
Robert Horton
Director Antoine Fuqua ... is left buried just as surely as those very unlikely gold bars.
USA Today
Mike Clark
If the movies that make 'best lists' are filet mignon, the culinary comparison here probably is bait.
Houston Chronicle
Blending comedy and action is a formula that works when both elements are strong, as in, say, Beverly Hills Cop or 48 Hours. In Bait, this isn't the case.
Entertainment Weekly
Steve Daly
Watching [the events] unfold is like being at the mercy of a compulsive channel surfer who can't stop flipping between a bad UPN cop show and a stock WB sitcom.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Christopher Kelly
It piles one ludicrous plot twist atop another and bothers not a whit with logic.
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
Ultimately, it's Foxx's insistence on filling any dead air with wisecracks that spoils Bait.
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Thanks to Antoine Fuqua's ... feverish and self-indulgent MTV-inspired direction, with its desperate overreliance on close-ups, you just can't tell what's going on.
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