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Bait

Bait (2012)

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Critic Reviews: 3
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 2

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When a monstrous freak tsunami hits a sleepy beach community, a group of survivors from different walks of life find themselves trapped inside a submerged grocery store. As they try to escape to safety, they soon discover that there is a predator among them more deadly than the threat of drowning-vicious great white sharks lurking in the water, starved hungry for fresh meat. As the bloodthirsty sharks begin to pick the survivors off one by one, the group realizes that they must work together to

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Sep 18, 2012

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Critic Reviews for Bait

All Critics (34) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (16) | Rotten (17) | DVD (2)

[It] has many flaws, the foremost among these is the inability to indicate whether we're supposed to consider the savage behavior brought on by its crises as ambiguous or unassailably good.

September 17, 2012 Full Review Source: Village Voice
Simon Abrams
Village Voice
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This likable trash occasionally outsmarts more moneyed Hollywood fish features.

September 17, 2012 Full Review Source: Variety
Guy Lodge
Variety
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Rendall and screenwriters Russell Mulcahy and John Kim forget that in between bursts of tart, blood-drenched mayhem, there's a saggy, dumb chamber drama that's completely bland and under-seasoned.

September 13, 2012 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
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More funny than scary, it often feels like Deep Blue Sea meets The Mist... but what's wrong with that?

May 2, 2013 Full Review Source: Total Film
Jamie Graham
Total Film

Bait is fairly exciting, ingenious, well designed, and is perhaps a clever advertisement for online grocery shopping.

April 21, 2013 Full Review Source: Observer [UK]
Philip French
Observer [UK]

Jaws it ain't.

April 19, 2013 Full Review Source: This is London
Derek Malcolm
This is London

It is all very silly, and more Corman than Spielberg, but entertaining.

April 18, 2013 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]

You've seen this movie without even seeing it.

April 18, 2013 Full Review Source: Little White Lies
David Jenkins
Little White Lies

Enormous fun, thanks to pacey direction, strong performances, a number of nicely handled gory bits and a script that pays close attention to the demands of the shark attack genre movie.

April 18, 2013 Full Review Source: ViewLondon
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

Carp all you like at how subtext, plausibility and sense have been sacrificed to this film's high concept, but all the stereoscopic slaughter is irresistibly appealing.

November 15, 2012 Full Review Source: Sight and Sound
Anton Bitel
Sight and Sound

The movie is called Bait 3D, where is the Shark? It takes a long time before the Shark starts chomping people. It just wasn't as campy or bloody as it probably should have been. It is well worth a rental.

November 5, 2012 Full Review Source: Eclipse Magazine
Michelle Alexandria
Eclipse Magazine

It's not spectacular, but it is good enough to see on the big screen.

November 1, 2012 Full Review Source: Flicks.co.nz
Dominic Corry
Flicks.co.nz

It's non-stop bloody fun from start to finish and one that you certainly should invite some friends over to dig on with you... again and again.

October 2, 2012 Full Review Source: Dread Central
Steve "Uncle Creepy" Barton
Dread Central

...my atheism will be cemented if this earns its money back.

September 27, 2012 Full Review Source: The Aristocrat
Adam Ross
The Aristocrat

Had director Kimbell Rendall, his 6 screenwriters, and the studio brass focused on creating a good film rather than selling a glossy product, then humiliation would have been avoided.

September 26, 2012 Full Review Source: Matt's Movie Reviews
Matthew Pejkovic
Matt's Movie Reviews

Bait takes itself way too seriously and there are only a handful of witty one-liners. It leaves us with a flat thriller starring a bunch of characters we couldn't care less about.

September 22, 2012 Full Review Source: ABC Radio Brisbane
Matthew Toomey
ABC Radio Brisbane

Sounds like loads of fun - and it should have been.

September 21, 2012 Full Review Source: 3AW
Jim Schembri
3AW

To say Bait features flawed logic is an understatement, but what can you expect when a shark floats down the produce section of your local grocer?

September 21, 2012 Full Review Source: We Got This Covered
Matt Donato
We Got This Covered

Think this is absolutely a genre film for a specific audience and I think it will deliver to that audience.

September 20, 2012 Full Review Source: At the Movies (Australia) | Comment (1)
Margaret Pomeranz
At the Movies (Australia)

Would it have been so hard to find really interesting characters, characters to involve the audience and make us care as to whether or not they'll wind up as fish food?

September 20, 2012 Full Review Source: At the Movies (Australia)
David Stratton
At the Movies (Australia)

Bait 3D needs to put aside the forced poignancy and attain full great bad movie status. Or at least let the sharks eat more characters.

September 20, 2012 Full Review Source: The Sunday Age
Craig Mathieson
The Sunday Age Source: The Sunday Age
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As far as shark film goes, Bait is nothing new or refreshing, and it presents a clichéd, predictable formula. The film is mediocre, but somewhat entertaining. However don't expect anything good here as this film is basically pretty cheesy, and relies on a poor cast of actors. The idea seemed really good, and it's a shame that the film has some potential, but the filmmakers can't seem to craft a good horror yarn. The film has some poorly written dialogue that is cringe worthy and instead of being something totally new and exciting, it simply relies on genre predictability to create its tension, thus you become less interested in the film, The blood effects are good, but the shark effects lack and look absolutely fake. You can tell that this is a low-budget affair, and maybe the concept may have looked good on paper, but on film the result is less impressive. This had some good ideas going for it, but due to a lacking script, and poor cast, it fails to be memorable. Bait is a disappointing creature feature that is void of genuine tension and effective thrills. Instead, it dumb down everything and there is really no pay off in the end for this flick that could have been so much more if the cast would have been better and in the end this is lazy, unimpressive filmmaking that is among the most disappointing horror features this year. As a whole, this is a forgettable flick that isn't worth your time, or unless you're having a bad movie night with friends, check it out. Otherwise pass up on this.
October 12, 2012
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Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

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A supermarket hold-up is interrupted by a tidal wave which submerges the store. Throw a great white shark into the mix and this should be a winning formula. The film takes itself far too seriously for such an outrageous premise and the awful CG effects fall well short of the film-maker's lofty ambitions. Released in 3D in Australia but straight to video in most markets, it's a slightly more professional alternative to a SyFy original.
September 30, 2012
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