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

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

This film wastes a lot of good actors.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Despite its genre trappings, Bait is an entertaining and occasionally clever picture with a crackling peformance by Jamie Foxx.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Numbingly incoherent.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

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.

| Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

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.

| Jan 1, 2000

Two things pretty much save the movie. The last 40 minutes are well-plotted and paced. And Foxx is enormously likable.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

It's funny and clever, and it grows on you.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

He's hilarious, but through the jokes, you get the sense Foxx knows he deserves better.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

It's just respectable trash, and a dress rehearsal for better things ahead.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Instead of a tiger in its tank, this vehicle for Foxx has a lot of formula.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Director Antoine Fuqua ... serves up every cliche in the book.

| Jan 1, 2000

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.

| Original Score: D+ | Jan 1, 2000

If the movies that make 'best lists' are filet mignon, the culinary comparison here probably is bait.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Director Antoine Fuqua ... is left buried just as surely as those very unlikely gold bars.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

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.

| Jan 1, 2000

It piles one ludicrous plot twist atop another and bothers not a whit with logic.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Ultimately, it's Foxx's insistence on filling any dead air with wisecracks that spoils Bait.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000