Full Review | Original Score: C- | Mar 19, 2013

Well paced, but weak on story, character, and variety, "Bait" is an underwhelming effort from director Anton Fuqua.

| Original Score: C- | May 18, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

...a really good 80-minute action movie trapped inside an overblown two-hour suckfest.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 1, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2003

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 10, 2003

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 8, 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?

| Jun 10, 2002

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 19, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 15, 2002

To sum it up in critic-speak, Bait doesn't stink, but it's not very appetizing.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 20, 2001

Full Review | Original Score: 47/100 | Jul 19, 2001

...typifies the kind of action comedies Hollywood seems to produce by the dozens every year.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Apr 6, 2001

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 27, 2001

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2001

The hackneyed script is filled with formulaic contrivances that continually strain credibility.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

This film wastes a lot of good actors.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000