Bait is a 2000 comedy-action-adventure film starring Jamie Foxx. 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 (who was told that nobody would get hurt) flees with the gold. He buries...
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Bait is a 2000 comedy-action-adventure film starring Jamie Foxx. 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 (who was told that nobody would get hurt) flees with the gold. He buries it, then drinks and drives, gets caught for DUI and is put in jail. He lies low in jail so that Bristol will not kill him.
Eventually, Bristol tracks him to prison; however, Jaster, who has a bad heart, for which he takes nitroglycerin, accidentally dies under interrogation. He tells Alvin Sanders (Foxx), a petty con artist incarcerated for stealing shrimp, to tell his wife (who is, unbeknownst to him, dead) to go to the Bronx Zoo, and that there's "no place like home".
Treasury agent Edgar Clenteen, played by Morse, is determined to catch...
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