Bait Reviews
March 19, 2013
Original Score: C-
May 18, 2009
Well paced, but weak on story, character, and variety, "Bait" is an underwhelming effort from director Anton Fuqua.
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| Original Score: C-
August 7, 2008
Original Score: 2/5
December 6, 2005
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
August 1, 2003
...a really good 80-minute action movie trapped inside an overblown two-hour suckfest.
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| Original Score: 2/4
May 20, 2003
Original Score: 2.5/4
March 10, 2003
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
February 8, 2003
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
December 8, 2002
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
June 10, 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?
March 19, 2002
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| Original Score: 1/4
January 15, 2002
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| Original Score: 3/5
September 20, 2001
To sum it up in critic-speak, Bait doesn't stink, but it's not very appetizing.
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| Original Score: 2/4
July 19, 2001
Original Score: 47/100
April 6, 2001
...typifies the kind of action comedies Hollywood seems to produce by the dozens every year.
Original Score: 4/10
February 27, 2001
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| Original Score: 2/4
January 1, 2001
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
January 1, 2000
With his patter kept in low gear and his dramatic scenes played with flat sincerity, [Foxx is] simply not compelling enough to center the film.
Original Score: 7/10
January 1, 2000
A completely derivative film, it steals its clichs from other movies but finds no ways to improve upon them.
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| Original Score: 4/10
January 1, 2000
Numbingly incoherent.
Original Score: 0.5/5