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Matt Weitz, Dallas Morning News: If you want a conflicted movie that doesn't know what it is -- or just wish to kill a few hours -- this is for you. Otherwise, keep fishing and cut Bait. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Numbingly incoherent. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Despite its genre trappings, Bait is an entertaining and occasionally clever picture with a crackling peformance by Jamie Foxx. Read more
Houston Chronicle: Blending comedy and action is a formula that works when both elements are strong, as in, say, Beverly Hills Cop or 48 Hours. In Bait, this isn't the case. Read more
Steve Daly, Entertainment Weekly: Watching [the events] unfold is like being at the mercy of a compulsive channel surfer who can't stop flipping between a bad UPN cop show and a stock WB sitcom. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's funny and clever, and it grows on you. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Bait makes a fatal mistake, one this kind of movie should never make unless it actually is The Matrix or Terminator 2: Judgment Day: It's long. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Two things pretty much save the movie. The last 40 minutes are well-plotted and paced. And Foxx is enormously likable. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: It's just respectable trash, and a dress rehearsal for better things ahead. Read more