The movie trailers are definitely the Bait that isn’t tied together too tightly to the hook. The plot isn’t hard to follow as the Federal Gold Reserve is broken into by a criminal mastermind and the chief investigator must use human bait to lure him out into the open.
From the opening, this film is so out-of-there full of stupid coincidences that it took all my strength just to stay in the theater for the first ten minutes. Perhaps it was a test on how asinine they can make a film and if the audience is dumb enough to sit there and believe it. On the other hand, maybe it’s just a movie and we just have to accept that these idiotic things would never happen. Well, I’m not sure what reality is anymore, but I do know that if they wanted this thing to be at all close to reality, they really dropped the ball here.
If they tried to add a dopey, boring hero like Sly Stallone in this film, it would have never worked. Jamie Foxx is the only thing that keeps you watching, but Foxx as a hero is really a joke. Nothing you can do would make Foxx a believable superman. It’s the laughs he scares up that keep this motor idling. Bait should keep the teens laughing as it removes them from the real world.
Bait is often funny, stupid, and embarrassing. What the film lacks in realism, plot, intelligence, and general common sense, it makes up for with Jamie Foxx’s senseless and generally funny adlibs.
+ charlie craine
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