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Bait
Directed by
Antoine Fuqua
2000
1h 59m
R
Comedy
,
Action
,
Thriller
,
and more
5.7
26%
41%
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An ex-con is used by police to lure a criminal out of hiding.
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Cast of Bait
Jamie Foxx
Alvin Sanders
David Morse
Edgar Clenteen
Robert Pastorelli
Jaster
Doug Hutchison
Bristol
Kimberly Elise
Lisa Hill
David Paymer
Agent Wooly
Mike Epps
Stevie Sanders
Jamie Kennedy
Agent Blum
Nestor Serrano
Agent Boyle
Kirk Acevedo
Ramundo
Jeffrey Donovan
Julio
Megan Dodds
Agent Walsh
Tia Texada
Tika
Neil Crone
Supervisor
Jason Jones
Guard
Martin Roach
Cop
Matthew Witherly
Guard
William Lynn
Night Watchman
Glyn Thomas
Chem-Tech Agent
Victor A. Young
Senator
Don Allison
Senator
Paul Miller
Dr. Harris
Goûchy Boy
Convict
Arnold Pinnock
Convict
Clé Bennett
Convict
Desmond Campbell
Convict
Shawn Lawrence
Warden Clay
Lee Rumohr
Bound Guard
Norm Spencer
Bound Guard
Tom Cappadona
Cab Driver
Jonathan Hadary
Cafe Owner
Ritchie Coster
Buyer
Stan Coles
General
Larry Block
Customer
Billy Otis
Odd Inmate
Navaco Bernice Downey
Girl in Club
John 'Frenchie' Berger
Medical Examiner
Joe Pingue
Cop
John Harper
Running Man
Dylan Bierk
Police Photographer
Bruce Beaton
Agent with Coffee
Ron Kennell
Mobile Agent
Conrad Bergschneider
Mobile Agent
Nik Pjeternikaj
Agent
Ron Bell
Trucker
Joanna Polley
Rhonda Glimsher (voice)
Lorraine McNeill-Krall
Woman Looking in Car Window
Brian Donahue
Federal Officer (uncredited)
David Headon
NSA Guard (uncredited)
Donna Milburn
Dancer (uncredited)
Jennifer Newman
Featured Dancer (uncredited)
Nick Poltoranin
FBI Agent (uncredited)
Paul Calderon
Cop (uncredited)
Wesley Finucan
Crowd Member (uncredited)
Antoine Fuqua
Man (uncredited)
Steve Nuke
FBI Agent (uncredited)
Matthew Reid
Man Running to the Bathroom (uncredited)
Bait Reviews
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Numbingly incoherent.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It's just respectable trash, and a dress rehearsal for better things ahead.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It's funny and clever, and it grows on you.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Two things pretty much save the movie. The last 40 minutes are well-plotted and paced. And Foxx is enormously likable.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
This film wastes a lot of good actors.
Orlando Sentinel
Roger Moore
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.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Despite its genre trappings, Bait is an entertaining and occasionally clever picture with a crackling peformance by Jamie Foxx.
Dallas Morning News
Matt Weitz
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.
Miami Herald
Charles Savage
Stands out for refusing to settle for the narcissism of Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence movies, instead addressing human vulnerabilities.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Bait makes a fatal mistake, one this kind of movie should never make unless it actually is The Matrix or Terminator 2: Judgment Day: It's long.
Film.com
Sean P. Means
He's hilarious, but through the jokes, you get the sense Foxx knows he deserves better.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Instead of a tiger in its tank, this vehicle for Foxx has a lot of formula.
CNN.com
Paul Tatara
Director Antoine Fuqua ... serves up every cliche in the book.
Film.com
Robert Horton
Director Antoine Fuqua ... is left buried just as surely as those very unlikely gold bars.
Houston Chronicle
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.
Entertainment Weekly
Steve Daly
Watching [the events] unfold is like being at the mercy of a compulsive channel surfer who can't stop flipping between a bad UPN cop show and a stock WB sitcom.
USA Today
Mike Clark
If the movies that make 'best lists' are filet mignon, the culinary comparison here probably is bait.
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