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Bait
In this action film, Alvin Sanders faces a dangerous course in his life because of a dangerous mission. Alvin is a small thief on his way to prison where he shares the cell with John Gaster, one of the most dangerous figures in the criminal team that stole $ 42 million worth of gold. In a short time, two thousand are used to enter into a bad and dangerous logic and find the hiding place of gold with a tracking device in his jaw. Alvin seems to be in a serious battle to find gold where he faces both Bristol, a brilliant criminal and two agents, the US Treasury Undersecretary.
5 August 1962, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
15 February 1970, Sacramento, California, USA
30 August 1954, Oceanside, Long Island, New York, USA
26 May 1960, Dover, Delaware, USA
3 June 1973, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
11 May 1968, Amesbury, Massachusetts, USA
January 01, 2000
The cliched story makes precious little sense.
January 01, 2000
It piles one ludicrous plot twist atop another and bothers not a whit with logic.
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.
April 06, 2001
...typifies the kind of action comedies Hollywood seems to produce by the dozens every year.
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?
August 01, 2003
...a really good 80-minute action movie trapped inside an overblown two-hour suckfest.
January 01, 2000
Fuqua draws from so many disparate genres to energize the film that fusion gives way to confusion.
September 20, 2001
To sum it up in critic-speak, Bait doesn't stink, but it's not very appetizing.
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.
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.
January 01, 2000
It's just respectable trash, and a dress rehearsal for better things ahead.
May 18, 2009
Well paced, but weak on story, character, and variety, "Bait" is an underwhelming effort from director Anton Fuqua.