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Bait
The film is about one of the young thieves, Alvin Sanders, who was a small thief and is on his way to jail while sharing the cell with John Gaster. His friend John, who was in prison with him, is one of the criminal team that stole $ 42 million worth of gold. Alvin begins a dangerous mission in order to find a hiding place with a gold tracking device in his jaw. Through that mission, everything will be alright, with Alvin in two dangerous ways, and here is Bristol, a brilliant criminal and two agents, the Under Secretary of the US Treasury.
25 May 1970, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, USA
27 November 1971, Brooklyn, New York, USA
30 May 1970, Stratford, Ontario, Canada
17 April 1967, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
30 October 1942, New York City, New York, USA
15 February 1970, Sacramento, California, USA
10 January 1975, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
August 01, 2003
...a really good 80-minute action movie trapped inside an overblown two-hour suckfest.
September 20, 2001
To sum it up in critic-speak, Bait doesn't stink, but it's not very appetizing.
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
The cliched story makes precious little sense.
May 18, 2009
Well paced, but weak on story, character, and variety, "Bait" is an underwhelming effort from director Anton Fuqua.
April 06, 2001
...typifies the kind of action comedies Hollywood seems to produce by the dozens every year.
January 01, 2000
Fuqua draws from so many disparate genres to energize the film that fusion gives way to confusion.
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
It piles one ludicrous plot twist atop another and bothers not a whit with logic.
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
It's just respectable trash, and a dress rehearsal for better things ahead.
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.