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Bait

Bait

Action Crime Thriller

2000, Movie, 1h 59min

Landing in jail for a petty theft crime, Alvin finds himself sharing a cell with John Jaster, the incarcerated half of the pair of high-tech thieves responsible for the missing gold. His partner, Bristol, is still at large. Alvin wants only to get out of prison and start fresh with his girlfriend, Lisa, and when the Feds, led by U.S. Treasury investigator Clenteen, set him loose on a sketchy deal, he thinks his luck has changed. Alvin has his freedom and the Feds have found their bait.

Country: United States

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6.0

Reviews

Critic Peter Bradshaw

rated

6

Along with absurdity and poor taste [...] there's a certain brutal B-movie brilliance in Bait.

Read full review at The Guardian

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Bait include The Siege, Swordfish, The Score, The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option, U.S. Marshals, Payback.

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Bait was released in theaters on September 15, 2000.