Bait (2000)

Director:

Antoine Fuqua

Writers (WGA):

Andrew Scheinman (written by) &
Adam Scheinman (written by) ...

Release Date:

15 September 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Thriller

Tagline:

Alvin Sanders is going to help the Feds catch a killer. He just doesn't know it yet.

Plot:

An ex-con is used by police to lure a criminal out of hiding.

Plot Keywords:

Dog | Chrysler Building New York | Helicopter | Infra Red | Mirror

Cast

Jamie Foxx	...	Alvin Sanders
David Morse	...	Edgar Clenteen
Robert Pastorelli	...	Jaster
Doug Hutchison	...	Bristol
Kimberly Elise	...	Lisa Hill
David Paymer	...	Agent Wooly
Mike Epps	...	Stevie Sanders
Jamie Kennedy	...	Agent Blum
Nestor Serrano	...	Agent Boyle
Kirk Acevedo	...	Ramundo
Jeffrey Donovan	...	Julio
Megan Dodds	...	Agent Walsh
Tia Texada	...	Tika
Neil Crone	...	Supervisor
Matthew Witherly	...	Guard

Also Known As:

Piégé (Canada: French title)

MPAA:

Rated R for language, violence and a scene of sexuality.

Runtime:

119 min

Country:

Canada | Australia | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Philippines:PG-13 | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | UK:15 | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba) | South Korea:15 | Denmark:15 (video premiere) | Argentina:13 | Australia:MA | Chile:14 | Germany:16 (w) | Netherlands:12 | Spain:13 | USA:R (certificate #37646) | Iceland:16

Filming Locations:

Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Castle Rock Entertainment

Goofs:

Continuity: In an establishing wide shot of the Federal Reserve's security centre, a digital clock quite plainly states the time is "00:07" - then a guard performs a scheduled system check during which time the same digital clock is seen in close-up to switch from "23:59" to "00:00."

Movie Connections:

References "The Price Is Right" (1993)

Soundtrack:

Life is Sweet

Somewhat funny and well-paced action thriller.

Somewhat funny and well-paced action thriller that has Jamie Foxx as a hapless, fast-talking hoodlum who is chosen by an overly demanding U.S. Treasury Agent (David Morse) to be released on the streets of New York to find a picky computer thief/hacker (Doug Hutchinson), who stole forty-two million dollars from the treasury and left two guards shot dead.

"Bait" marks the sophomore feature for Antoine Fuqua ("The Replacement Killers") and he handles the task fairly well even though it doesn't top his first movie. What the two films have in common is the action sequences, which are flat-out excellent.

Foxx is pretty good here although his character is annoying in the beginning, but throughout the film, I began to catch on. Hutchinson is marvelous as the mastermind who can be ruthless as John Malkovich and patient as the late Laurence Olivier was in "Marathon Man". Morse is okay as the agent who comes up with the ingenious plan to get whoever did it at all cost.