Bait

Pros: Good for a date, or a "doing-nothing" Friday night.
Cons: Holes in the plot, could have used a better actor.

It's too bad that the name "Bait" was chosen for this movie. I think catchy titles should be left for good movies.

Okay, it wasn't a complete waste of a 2 for 1 rental coupon. Jamie Foxx starred as Alvin Sanders. My biggest problem with this...

Pros: Occasionally Jamie Foxx, occasionally nice stunts, occasionally good acting from the supporting players
Cons: The story just isn't interesting enough and neither is Foxx's character

Antoine Fuqua seems to be a go-to director when you want your star to do a little reinvention. After a long and distinguished (relatively speaking) career directing music videos (Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" for example), Fuqua's first feature was The ...

Pros: Some good action scenes
Cons: Everything else

I am going to do something I don’t normally do when writing an opinion on movies. I am going to almost, but not quite give out the ending to where the money is buried. I feel it really isn’t integral to the plot so it won’t spoil anything, but...

Pros: Jamie Foxx
Cons: script, plot, and direction

Motor-mouthed comedian Jamie Foxx's thriller-comedy may be called "Bait" but it never grabs the hook. Foxx plays a good-natured, small-time thief on parole who, as the story begins, is caught stealing prawns from a Brooklyn restaurant...

Pros: Good atmosphere
Cons: Foxx plays his character too dumb

Watching “Bait” this afternoon was a strange experience. I love to watch previews and catch new glimpses of upcoming films. One of the previews was for Spike Lee’s new film “Bamboozled”, about a black network executive that recreates a minstrel show for...

Pros: Good effects and action scenes. The movie flows really well considering...
Cons: Jamie Foxx is a goomba who blunders many good scenes the movie could have had.

Let's say you have never seen an episode of the WB comedy, "The Jamie Foxx Show." And let's assume you have never grown increasingly tired of Jamie Foxx in just about anything you see him in. In that case, "Bait" could come off as a...

Pros: Antoine Fuqua has a terrific visual sense.
Cons: The story is nothing short of forgettable.

(Dir: Antoine Fuqua, Starring Jamie Foxx, David Morse, Doug Hutchison, Robert Pastorelli, Kimberly Elise, David Paymer, Mike Epps, Jamie Kennedy, Nestor Serrano, Megan Dodds, Kirk Acevedo, and Heffrey Donovan)

Stylistically speaking, Antoine...

Pros: Jamie Foxx; Antoine Fuqua's slick style.
Cons: An overly complex plot.

Bait does serve its primary purpose: to serve as a showcase for the comic talents of star Jamie Foxx, whose excitable energy is mirrored by the slick direction of Antoine Fuqua. Too bad there's too much of a story that asks that the suspension of...

Pros: Glossy editing
Cons: Too much Jamie Foxx

From the director of ("The Replacements Killers"), Antoine Fuqua’s action fills the screen with his patented formulaic entertainment value. Never has a movie in the last couple of days featured more pyrotechnics, collision courses, and car crashes. When...

Pros: Jamie Foxx is funny at times.
Cons: Everything is overdone. Cinematography is terrible.

Jamie Foxx is the bait in this movie. The bait to try and trick you into seeing it.

It's unfortunate, because at times I really like Jamie Foxx. I think that left to his own devices he can really be funny. There are parts in this movie where...

Pros: Great explosions; Action in a nick of time
Cons: Too much talk in the beginning

As summer 2000 comes to a close, it has been disappointing to find yet another mediocre film. How long will it be before something extraordinary comes to theaters? Movies are never what they used to be.

In Bait, the beginning is full of...

Pros: Funny
Cons: Predictable, not a good action film

Pros: Jamie Foxx manages to pull off a character that's both funny and smart
Cons: A film that's not sure whether it's a comedy or an action adventure

Jamie Foxx has been making some very interesting career moves. Having starred in his own sitcom on Fox and in the commercially successful "Any Given Sunday", one would think he could write his own ticket virtually anywhere he wants.

This film...

Pros: Some place cool to go on a hot day.
Cons: lacking the humor of Jammie.

Don't get me wrong now. I love a good stupid movie. However, Bait was far from good, but had the corner on stupid.

Again, the reason why I saw this flic was simple. Bait had a damn fine trailer. And that is what got me to spend my cash. Now...

Pros: Great Movie for Fun time!
Cons: Bad movie for meaningful time!

You can't ask for more than a sigh and a laugh when you go to see a movie, and Bait, starring Jamie Fox as a dim witted shrimp thief, is one of those movies.

If you are looking for something that tells a story that's meaningful and...