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Bait
Warner Bros.
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for language, violence and a scene of sexuality
Starring
Jamie Foxx,
David Morse,
Doug Hutchison,
Robert Pastorelli,
and
Kimberly Elise
Alvin Sanders (Foxx) is set up as bait by Treasury Agent Clenteen (Morse) to trap a dangerous criminal (Hutchison). The Feds think Alvin was given a secret code in jail that would lead to gold in the U.S. Treasury. Alvin just wants to go straight, but ...
| GENRE(S): |
Action
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Andrew Scheinman
Adam Scheinman
Tony Gilroy
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Antoine Fuqua
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 23, 2001
Video: January 23, 2001
Theatrical: September 15, 2000
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
119 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / Canada |

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75
Miami Herald
Charles Savage
A competent but not extraordinary action-comedy.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It's over the top, an exercise in action comedy that cuts loose from logic and enjoys itself.

67
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
A genial and watchable film.
63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It'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.
60
Variety
Dennis Harvey
A B movie in A-grade clothing.

60
LA Weekly
F. X. Feeney
Though the film overall is as disposable as a hot dog, it is just as enjoyable.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
A perfectly competent, if undistinguished, action film that smoothes over all the most interesting bumps in the drama.

50
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
It's long. Long movies almost always mean the audience member has time to think, and in this context that's not a good thing.

50
San Francisco Examiner
Walter Addiego
Too much of nothing and far from the potentially star-making material that Foxx deserves.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The action is difficult to follow.

50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The 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.

50
USA Today
Mike Clark
Has less substance and depth than its title.
50
Film.com
Sean Means
He's hilarious, but through the jokes, you get the sense Foxx knows he deserves better.

50
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
It may be a dismal comedy thriller, but Antoine Fuqua's Bait has one piece of bait that's definitely appealing: Jamie Foxx.

50
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Bait ends up seeming pretty wormy.
50
TNT RoughCut
Andy Klein
It more or less makes sense and it's not dull -- more than can be said for many similar attempts.
40
Film.com
Robert Horton
The plot is convoluted.

40
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It's just respectable trash, and a dress rehearsal for better things ahead.

40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Foxx is a charmer, and he makes Alvin's unlikely evolution from relentless hustler to reasonably solid citizen believable, and even rather touching.

40
Mr. Showbiz
Larry Terenzi
Even Foxx's lively comedy is lost in the noise.
38
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
One of those thriller-comedy combos that never get the balance quite right.
33
Entertainment Weekly
Steve Daly
A tired action thriller determined to play the race card every which way for every which kind of viewer, seems hopelessly behind the curve.

30
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Bait equals bad.

30
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
This comedy-thriller that has no particular motive for changing tones.

30
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
So convoluted and half-assed it's tempting to dismiss it as unfinished; it feels like six different movies cut together by a blind editor.

20
Los Angeles Times
Gene Seymour
But what little humor there is in the movie becomes subservient to the grisly violence, gratuitous cruelty and ugly car chases.
20
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Ought to be called "Hook, Line and Stinker."

10
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Why 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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