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Bait (2000)

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Release Date: September 15, 2000
Genre: Action, Comedy
Running Time: 119 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated R for language, violence and a scene of sexuality.
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Writer: Tom Gilroy, Jeff Nathanson
Cast: Jamie Foxx, David Morse, Doug Hutchison, Kirk Acevedo, Megan Dodds, Jeffrey Donovan, Kimberly Elise, Mike Epps, Jamie Kennedy, David Paymer, Robert Pastorelli, Nestor Serrano, Tia Texada

Alvin Sanders lands in jail for stealing prawns and he shares a cell with a man who was just arrested for stealing a lot of gold. The US Treasury department believes that this man told Alvin where the gold is, so they put a locator device in his body and let him go. Of course, trouble follows. Read more

Movie Review

Grade: B Jamie Foxx takes the lead in the action comedy Bait, a movie that neither fails to live up to expectations, but doesn't really exceed them, either. It falls victim to the ever so common "we've seen this movie before" formula before, although it does do the smart thing and go with an R rating, which means R content. Read the full movie review

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