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75It's over the top, an exercise in action comedy that cuts loose from logic and enjoys itself.
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75A competent but not extraordinary action-comedy.
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67A genial and watchable film.
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63It's another slick-and-quick muscle car of a movie, racing along for a couple of hours, taking you nowhere as fast as it can.
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60Though the film overall is as disposable as a hot dog, it is just as enjoyable.
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60A B movie in A-grade clothing.
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58A perfectly competent, if undistinguished, action film that smoothes over all the most interesting bumps in the drama.
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50The comically tinged action is as lively as it is brainless, and it revels in violence a bit less eagerly than many thrillers of its ilk.
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50It may be a dismal comedy thriller, but Antoine Fuqua's Bait has one piece of bait that's definitely appealing: Jamie Foxx.
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50The action is difficult to follow.
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50Too much of nothing and far from the potentially star-making material that Foxx deserves.
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50Has less substance and depth than its title.
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50Bait ends up seeming pretty wormy.
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50It's long. Long movies almost always mean the audience member has time to think, and in this context that's not a good thing.
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50He's hilarious, but through the jokes, you get the sense Foxx knows he deserves better.
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50It more or less makes sense and it's not dull -- more than can be said for many similar attempts.
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40Even Foxx's lively comedy is lost in the noise.
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40Foxx is a charmer, and he makes Alvin's unlikely evolution from relentless hustler to reasonably solid citizen believable, and even rather touching.
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40The plot is convoluted.
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40It's just respectable trash, and a dress rehearsal for better things ahead.
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38One of those thriller-comedy combos that never get the balance quite right.
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A tired action thriller determined to play the race card every which way for every which kind of viewer, seems hopelessly behind the curve.
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30Bait equals bad.
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30So convoluted and half-assed it's tempting to dismiss it as unfinished; it feels like six different movies cut together by a blind editor.
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30This comedy-thriller that has no particular motive for changing tones.
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20But what little humor there is in the movie becomes subservient to the grisly violence, gratuitous cruelty and ugly car chases.
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20Ought to be called "Hook, Line and Stinker."
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10Why Mr. Foxx, who was so impressive in "Any Given Sunday," chose to make a movie so boring and idiotic that it barely meets minimal standards of lowest- common-denominator entertainment.
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