In this action film, Alvin Sanders faces a dangerous course in his life because of a dangerous mission. Alvin is a small thief on his way to prison where he shares the cell with John Gaster, one of the most dangerous figures in the criminal team that stole $ 42 million worth of gold. In a short time, two thousand are used to enter into a bad and dangerous logic and find the hiding place of gold with a tracking device in his jaw. Alvin seems to be in a serious battle to find gold where he faces both Bristol, a brilliant criminal and two agents, the US Treasury Undersecretary.
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.
Kalamazoo Gazette
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?
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.
Houston Chronicle
January 01, 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.
