Bait
Alvin Sanders, a petty thief is on the way to prison while he is sharing the cell with John Jaster, one half of the criminal team who has stolen $42 million worth of gold. Happened to hear the last word of John, Alvin then is being used to find where the gold is hidden with a tracking device in his jaw. Alvin now is stuck in the battle of finding the gold between Bristol, a genius criminal and Clenteen, US Treasury agent.
5 November 1955, Bronx, New York, USA
11 October 1948, Chicago, Illinois, USA
11 October 1953, Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA
15 November 1961, Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Almaty, Kazakhstan]
5 August 1962, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
30 August 1954, Oceanside, Long Island, New York, USA
3 June 1973, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
27 November 1971, Brooklyn, New York, USA
30 May 1970, Stratford, Ontario, Canada
18 November 1970, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
30 October 1942, New York City, New York, USA
1 July 1967, London, England, UK
10 January 1975, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
June 10, 2002
includes all the key ingredients for what Hollywood passes off as an "urban comedy." ... The finale of "Bait" finds a screaming infant and his drugged mother strapped to a bomb -- funny stuff, huh?
January 01, 2000
Fuqua draws from so many disparate genres to energize the film that fusion gives way to confusion.
January 01, 2000
It piles one ludicrous plot twist atop another and bothers not a whit with logic.
September 20, 2001
To sum it up in critic-speak, Bait doesn't stink, but it's not very appetizing.
May 18, 2009
Well paced, but weak on story, character, and variety, "Bait" is an underwhelming effort from director Anton Fuqua.
January 01, 2000
It's just respectable trash, and a dress rehearsal for better things ahead.
January 01, 2000
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.
August 01, 2003
...a really good 80-minute action movie trapped inside an overblown two-hour suckfest.
January 01, 2000
The cliched story makes precious little sense.
January 01, 2000
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.
April 06, 2001
...typifies the kind of action comedies Hollywood seems to produce by the dozens every year.
January 01, 2000
Fuqua has enveloped the luckless Jamie Foxx ... in a stylishly inept mess of a movie; a film as badly flawed in concept as it is incoherent in execution.
