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Alvin Sanders, a petty thief is on the way to prison while he is sharing the cell with John Jaster, one half of the criminal team who has stolen $42 million worth of gold. Happened to hear the last word of John, Alvin then is being used to find where the gold is hidden with a tracking device in his jaw. Alvin now is stuck in the battle of finding the gold between Bristol, a genius criminal and Clenteen, US Treasury agent.
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.
It piles one ludicrous plot twist atop another and bothers not a whit with logic.
January 01, 2000
Kalamazoo Gazette
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?
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.
January 01, 2000
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.