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Bait is a 2000 action comedy starring Jamie Foxx, David Morse and Doug Hutchison. It was directed by Antoine Fuqua.
Hutchison plays Bristol, a high-tech thief who masterminds a break-in to the Federal Gold Reserve in New York; while he uses his computer to shut down security, his assistant Jaster (Robert Pastorelli) grabs $40 million in bullion. When Bristol begins killing the guards, Jaster flees with the gold and is eventually caught.
Foxx plays Alvin Sanders, a petty con artist incarcerated with Jaster, who dies in prison from heart failure. Treasury agent Edgar Cleenton, played by Morse, is determined to catch Bristol over the death of three of his men, so he decides to use Alvin as bait to lure out the killer. Making it seem as if Alvin knows the whereabouts of Jaster's gold stash, Bristol will go after Alvin - not knowing that he has a transmitter surgically implanted that allows Cleenton to track and him and listen to all his conversations.
Cast
- Jamie Foxx as Alvin Sanders
- David Morse as Edgar Clenteen
- Doug Hutchison as Bristol
- Kimberly Elise as Lisa Hill
- David Paymer as Agent Wooly
- Mike Epps as Stevie Sanders
- Robert Pastorelli as John Delano Jaster
- Jamie Kennedy as Agent Blum
- Nestor Serrano as Agent Boyle
- Kirk Acevedo as Ramundo
- Jeffrey Donovan as Julio
- Megan Dodds as Agent Walsh
- Tia Texada as Tika
Criticism
While critics praised Jamie Foxx for his solid comedic/dramatic performance in Bait, they weren't so kind on the rest of the film. Doug Hutchison's performance as the villain Bristol was too much a carbon copy of John Malkovich and Kevin Spacey's performances. The movie also suffers from a sudden change of tone when Alvin decides to grow up and take responsibilities as a new father of a newborn baby that his girlfriend (Kimberly Elise) gave birth to while in prison; the movie took alot of delight in Alvin's buffoonery that when the movie became serious, the change in tone ruined the narrative. The movie had alot of violent undertones which ruined the comedic tone, such as endagerment to children among others. Finally, Antoine Fuqua's background as a music video director was evident in several action scenes of the film, such as major close-ups, fast editing, bizarre camera angles, and shaky-cam scenes.
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