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And why does the wife stay in the house?
Is she now possessed by the serial killer?
Is the baby going to be the killer reincarnated?
This movie was such a frustrating experience I wanted to call my PBS station and ask for my money back!
The ONLY enjoyable aspect of this story was seeing the husband running around in just his boxer shorts for a lot of the time, but even that couldn't redeem this muddled, incoherent mess.
...
that Jamie Foxx would ever deliver such a wonderful, Oscar-winning performance.
One of the reasons why I was so impressed with Foxx's performance in "Ray" was because from watching his hammy, obnoxious acting in movies like "Bait" and "Booty Call," I would never imagine he would ever hold the Oscar.
If people told me five years ago that Jamie Foxx was one day going to win an Oscar, I would laugh right in their faces.
Who knows?
Maybe he's better off sticking to drama, because if you watch "Bait," it's clearly evident that comedy is not his forte.
I swear, Jamie mugs so much in this movie that I'm surprised his face didn't fall off.
And why does he have to do those stupid voices at every chance he gets?
Anyone familiar with comedians like Bob Newhart and Steven Wright knows that doing comedy doesn't require being loud and obnoxious.
If a joke is funny, it's funny.
If it's not funny, then doing some crazy accent is not going to make it any funnier.
The problem I have with some comedians who decide to try acting is that they favor getting laughs over being in character.
In real life, normal people don't always have witty comebacks and quips.
Like Albert Brooks said in an interview discussing his character in "Taxi Driver," it's important to be funny as your character, rather than be funny as a comedian.
A prime example of Jamie violating that rule is the nauseatingly awful scene where his mug shots are being taken, and he starts posing for the photographs like a model.
If a regular person were being thrown in jail, would he really be acting goofy while having his mug shots taken?
And wouldn't the police try to scold him if he was?
There are many scenes like that throughout the film.
Another awful sequence is one where Jamie is on the unwittingly on the phone with the villain, and he starts doing a phony Caribbean accent.
Not funny!
Not to mention Jamie never seems to acknowledge the timing of a joke.
Giving a comedic performance requires patience, whereas he goes straight to the punchline, whether it's the right time for it or not.
I'm not even a big Mike Epps fan, but even his performance is good in comparison to Jamie's.
As a matter of fact, this is the first time I felt somewhat relieved whenever he would appear on screen.
Epps has the same flaws when it comes to comedy, but at least he chooses a more low-key approach.
One of the few bright spots in this clunker of a comedy is David Morse, a highly underrated actor mostly known for his supporting roles as villains.
He seems to be the only actor in the film concerned with grounding it in reality.
However, fellow "Green Mile" star Doug Hutchison is disgustingly over-the-top as the villain.
A big surprise, considering he gave a superb performance in "The Green Mile," also playing a heavy.
Antoine Fuqua has proved his directing chops in movies like "The Replacement Killers" and "Training Day."
Even in "Bait," he shows he can direct a hell of an action sequence.
His only problem seemed to be in disciplining Jamie Foxx, who probably improvised half the script with one bad joke after another.
Unless you're a die-hard fan of Foxx, please don't take the bait.
After a day at work, I sat down to relax and turned on the movie channels.
The movie came up on the guide and sounded interesting so I tuned in just before it started.
The first 30 minutes were enough to make me interested, but the lack of acting ability in Jamie Foxx and the slow plot movement made me want to get up and find food during the movie.
If there is any credit to be given for acting in this movie it should go to David Morse who at least tries to make the movie interesting.
All in all, don't plan on impressing your friends by picking this one as a renter for a movie night.
Jamie Foxx is my favorite comedian.
However, I feel that he sold out in order to gain his first big budget lead role.
Foxx follows in the footsteps of the likes of Chris Tucker, Martin Lawrence and Dave Chapple, who have all seen their talents wasted by stereotyping producers who think black males who commit pretty crimes is a funny concept (See: Money Talks, Blue Streak).
Okay I laughed a few times and granted all of these comedians continue to pick up hilarious roles, but I would love to see these guys branch out ala Marlon Wayans portrayal in Requiem to a Dream.
Or In Living Color's Tommy Davidson and Damon Wayans moving performances in Spike Lee's satire Bamboozled.
Jamie Foxx is fun but this movie has been done before.
The bad guy plays a "malkovichian" character from "In the Line of Fire."
The cops will do anything to find the bad guy - and of course the good guy has two sets of bad guys and one set of cops after him - all the while he is just trying to turn over a new leaf...
Well, i can and will be very short.
This is a wrong-balanced, non-convincing film that could have been a little bit better.
The script seems to not know which way to go ...
from funny to cliche-wise serious...
it's a bit silly.
That plus too much sentences we have heard before "the hacker is in florida, or no, he is in madrid, no he is in ...
, he is screwing the signal."
4 out of 10
photography was too jumpy to follow.
dark scenes hard to see.
Had good story line too bad it got lost somewhere.
Too noisy for what was really happening Bottom line is it's a baddddd movie
This is the first time I ever saw a movie with Jamie Foxx, and I bet it will be my last.
I failed to see why he was funny, although people in the audience thought it was very funny when he made a face to the camera, or for saying "I am going to take a shower."
The plot is completely predictable.
The bad guy comes after the good guy.
The good guy has a woman, so the bad guy uses her.
In between, the officials screwing up.
The final scenes are utterly unbelievable.
You spend 2 years and millions of dollars chasing a guy, but you don't do your home work to solve a trivial riddle?
There's no great acting, there isn't much of a plot or storyline, and the shooting is done MTV style.
Don't waste your money on this one.
I love Jamie Foxx.
And I enjoy 99% of all movies I see.
And I walked out of this one.
Now, I admit, it may have had something to do with the two middle-aged white women in the back of theatre who laughed at every little thing ("Oh no, Jamie's knocking on a door!
HEE HEE HEE"!), but...
this was just so incredibly annoying.
There could be no sustained camera shot, and no camera shot from a conventional angle...
everything had to be in-your-face, loud, and annoying.
The bad guy tried to be smooth and Malkovich-like, but at this point, it's just old and tired.
He brought nothing new or interesting.
From all the characters, too many lines you saw coming, too many you've heard before, and too many "tough guy" lines...
and I don't mind that sort of thing, really, as long as there's a bit of originality to it.
In fact, pretty much the entire supporting cast just sucked.
I love Jamie Foxx, and I think he's really funny, and I thought he was funny in this movie...
but not nearly funny enough for me to endure everything else.
This movie needed less shoot-em-up, less annoying camera shots, more emotion, more feeling, and more Jamie Foxx.
I gave it a 2.
What?
Is Jamie Foxx supposed to be funny?
Does he really believe he is funny?
Well, it's funny watching his confidence in being funny.
The man has no identity whatsoever...
I mean you can immediately see who his idols are, Denzel Washington and Martin Lawrence, because he tries really hard to imitate them in most of his movies.
The only problem is that he does it bad, uneven, and what comes out are some parts where he somewhat looks like Denzel, with that macho-s**t attitude and then abruptly goes to being Martin Lawrence, the funny and clumsy-silly comic.
There's no personal touch to all that, I mean he contributes nothing to the personality he tries to sell, and I'm sure he has nothing to say personally.
He really is Mr. Dull-boy in person.
I was really hoping Hollywood, and the black community in America would find somebody better to launch into super stardom, like Don Cheadle for example, but perhaps the pathetic Jamie better represents the generation that remixes the old.

And why does the wife stay in the house?

Is she now possessed by the serial killer?

Is the baby going to be the killer reincarnated?

This movie was such a frustrating experience I wanted to call my PBS station and ask for my money back!

The ONLY enjoyable aspect of this story was seeing the husband running around in just his boxer shorts for a lot of the time, but even that couldn't redeem this muddled, incoherent mess.

...

that Jamie Foxx would ever deliver such a wonderful, Oscar-winning performance.

One of the reasons why I was so impressed with Foxx's performance in "Ray" was because from watching his hammy, obnoxious acting in movies like "Bait" and "Booty Call," I would never imagine he would ever hold the Oscar.

If people told me five years ago that Jamie Foxx was one day going to win an Oscar, I would laugh right in their faces.

Who knows?

Maybe he's better off sticking to drama, because if you watch "Bait," it's clearly evident that comedy is not his forte.

I swear, Jamie mugs so much in this movie that I'm surprised his face didn't fall off.

And why does he have to do those stupid voices at every chance he gets?

Anyone familiar with comedians like Bob Newhart and Steven Wright knows that doing comedy doesn't require being loud and obnoxious.

If a joke is funny, it's funny.

If it's not funny, then doing some crazy accent is not going to make it any funnier.

The problem I have with some comedians who decide to try acting is that they favor getting laughs over being in character.

In real life, normal people don't always have witty comebacks and quips.

Like Albert Brooks said in an interview discussing his character in "Taxi Driver," it's important to be funny as your character, rather than be funny as a comedian.

A prime example of Jamie violating that rule is the nauseatingly awful scene where his mug shots are being taken, and he starts posing for the photographs like a model.

If a regular person were being thrown in jail, would he really be acting goofy while having his mug shots taken?

And wouldn't the police try to scold him if he was?

There are many scenes like that throughout the film.

Another awful sequence is one where Jamie is on the unwittingly on the phone with the villain, and he starts doing a phony Caribbean accent.

Not funny!

Not to mention Jamie never seems to acknowledge the timing of a joke.

Giving a comedic performance requires patience, whereas he goes straight to the punchline, whether it's the right time for it or not.

I'm not even a big Mike Epps fan, but even his performance is good in comparison to Jamie's.

As a matter of fact, this is the first time I felt somewhat relieved whenever he would appear on screen.

Epps has the same flaws when it comes to comedy, but at least he chooses a more low-key approach.

One of the few bright spots in this clunker of a comedy is David Morse, a highly underrated actor mostly known for his supporting roles as villains.

He seems to be the only actor in the film concerned with grounding it in reality.

However, fellow "Green Mile" star Doug Hutchison is disgustingly over-the-top as the villain.

A big surprise, considering he gave a superb performance in "The Green Mile," also playing a heavy.

Antoine Fuqua has proved his directing chops in movies like "The Replacement Killers" and "Training Day."

Even in "Bait," he shows he can direct a hell of an action sequence.

His only problem seemed to be in disciplining Jamie Foxx, who probably improvised half the script with one bad joke after another.

Unless you're a die-hard fan of Foxx, please don't take the bait.

After a day at work, I sat down to relax and turned on the movie channels.

The movie came up on the guide and sounded interesting so I tuned in just before it started.

The first 30 minutes were enough to make me interested, but the lack of acting ability in Jamie Foxx and the slow plot movement made me want to get up and find food during the movie.

If there is any credit to be given for acting in this movie it should go to David Morse who at least tries to make the movie interesting.

All in all, don't plan on impressing your friends by picking this one as a renter for a movie night.

Jamie Foxx is my favorite comedian.

However, I feel that he sold out in order to gain his first big budget lead role.

Foxx follows in the footsteps of the likes of Chris Tucker, Martin Lawrence and Dave Chapple, who have all seen their talents wasted by stereotyping producers who think black males who commit pretty crimes is a funny concept (See: Money Talks, Blue Streak).

Okay I laughed a few times and granted all of these comedians continue to pick up hilarious roles, but I would love to see these guys branch out ala Marlon Wayans portrayal in Requiem to a Dream.

Or In Living Color's Tommy Davidson and Damon Wayans moving performances in Spike Lee's satire Bamboozled.

Jamie Foxx is fun but this movie has been done before.

The bad guy plays a "malkovichian" character from "In the Line of Fire."

The cops will do anything to find the bad guy - and of course the good guy has two sets of bad guys and one set of cops after him - all the while he is just trying to turn over a new leaf...

Well, i can and will be very short.

This is a wrong-balanced, non-convincing film that could have been a little bit better.

The script seems to not know which way to go ...

from funny to cliche-wise serious...

it's a bit silly.

That plus too much sentences we have heard before "the hacker is in florida, or no, he is in madrid, no he is in ...

, he is screwing the signal."

4 out of 10

photography was too jumpy to follow.

dark scenes hard to see.

Had good story line too bad it got lost somewhere.

Too noisy for what was really happening Bottom line is it's a baddddd movie

This is the first time I ever saw a movie with Jamie Foxx, and I bet it will be my last.

I failed to see why he was funny, although people in the audience thought it was very funny when he made a face to the camera, or for saying "I am going to take a shower."

The plot is completely predictable.

The bad guy comes after the good guy.

The good guy has a woman, so the bad guy uses her.

In between, the officials screwing up.

The final scenes are utterly unbelievable.

You spend 2 years and millions of dollars chasing a guy, but you don't do your home work to solve a trivial riddle?

There's no great acting, there isn't much of a plot or storyline, and the shooting is done MTV style.

Don't waste your money on this one.

I love Jamie Foxx.

And I enjoy 99% of all movies I see.

And I walked out of this one.

Now, I admit, it may have had something to do with the two middle-aged white women in the back of theatre who laughed at every little thing ("Oh no, Jamie's knocking on a door!

HEE HEE HEE"!), but...

this was just so incredibly annoying.

There could be no sustained camera shot, and no camera shot from a conventional angle...

everything had to be in-your-face, loud, and annoying.

The bad guy tried to be smooth and Malkovich-like, but at this point, it's just old and tired.

He brought nothing new or interesting.

From all the characters, too many lines you saw coming, too many you've heard before, and too many "tough guy" lines...

and I don't mind that sort of thing, really, as long as there's a bit of originality to it.

In fact, pretty much the entire supporting cast just sucked.

I love Jamie Foxx, and I think he's really funny, and I thought he was funny in this movie...

but not nearly funny enough for me to endure everything else.

This movie needed less shoot-em-up, less annoying camera shots, more emotion, more feeling, and more Jamie Foxx.

I gave it a 2.

What?

Is Jamie Foxx supposed to be funny?

Does he really believe he is funny?

Well, it's funny watching his confidence in being funny.

The man has no identity whatsoever...

I mean you can immediately see who his idols are, Denzel Washington and Martin Lawrence, because he tries really hard to imitate them in most of his movies.

The only problem is that he does it bad, uneven, and what comes out are some parts where he somewhat looks like Denzel, with that macho-s**t attitude and then abruptly goes to being Martin Lawrence, the funny and clumsy-silly comic.

There's no personal touch to all that, I mean he contributes nothing to the personality he tries to sell, and I'm sure he has nothing to say personally.

He really is Mr. Dull-boy in person.

I was really hoping Hollywood, and the black community in America would find somebody better to launch into super stardom, like Don Cheadle for example, but perhaps the pathetic Jamie better represents the generation that remixes the old.