Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

zardoz-13 The predicament in director Kimble Rendall's "Jaws" like thriller "Bait 3D" distinguishes it from the usual habitat of a standard-issue shark movie. Imagine living in sunny Australia when a tsunami strikes, and you find yourself hopelessly trapped in a flooded supermarket with a 12-foot Great White Shark cruising the aisles. Now, take that high-concept a bit further, add a second Great White, but place it into an adjoining parking lot with another group of confined folks. Preposterous and predictable throughout its 93 minutes because you know who is going to get gobbled, "Bait 3D" manages to deliver a sufficient number of thrills. The CGI effects of a Great White making the rounds and the suspense that ensues whenever somebody winds up in the water compensates for the déjà vu factor. Furthermore, the characters are slightly interesting because they have all dealt with personal hardship. The chief characters are a cute couple who would have been married and go on about their lives happily ever after had a shark not eaten one of them. Josh (Xavier Samuel of "Love & Friendship'') is set to marry his shapely sweetheart, Tina (Sharni Vinson of "Step Up 3D"), when tragedy strikes. Tina's brother Rory (Richard Brancatisano of "Alex & Eve") threw a party for Josh the day before, and Josh is recovering from a hangover from the fabulous escapade. Suffice to say, Josh is too sick to set a life buoy in the ocean. Josh and Rory are lifeguards at the local beach. Rory paddles out to do what Josh is too ill to handle, and a Great White shark munches him along with another swimmer. Josh tried to reach Rory on a Jet-Ski, and he watches in horror as his friend is chomped to bits. Now, this unfortunate event traumatizes poor Josh, and he cannot bear to look Rory's sister Tina in the eye. Ultimately, they go their separate ways, until the present-day events happen.Meantime, aside from the Josh & Tina story, Rendall and his writers, including "Highlander's" Russell Mulcaly and John Kim, have provided several other characters. First, they give us a snotty babe with an attitude, Jaimie (Phoebe Tonkin of "Tomorrow, When the War Began"), who loves to shoplift. Not only does this get her in trouble with her police, as it turns out none other than her stern, pistol-packing father Colins (Martin Sacks), but it also costs her boyfriend, Ryan (Alex Russell of "Unbroken"), his job as a security guard. While all this is going on, two guys with guns, Doyle (Julian McMahon of "Nip/Tuck") and Kirby (Dan Wyllie of "Chopper"), try to rob the supermarket and . The chief difference is that Doyle doesn't kill anybody, but Kirby shoots girl point blank in the head. The only remaining character is the supermarket manager, Jessup (Adrian Pang of "Spy Game") who complains about everything and doesn't get eaten quickly enough by the predatory Great White. All these unfortunates and a few more find themselves stranded atop the merchandise display cases while they watch the shark swim around in search of his next snack. In the parking garage nearby, Ryan struggles to help a quarreling couple, Heather (television actress Cariba Heine) and his stuck-up boyfriend Kyle (Lincoln Lewis of "After Earth"), stuck in a car with their snippy pet pooch, while that second Great White churns the water.Rendall and his writers stick with the established formula that the good people are rewarded for their behavior while the bad ones are punished. Meaning, the good guys survive while the bad guys die. The exception to the rule is Julian McMahon's character; he redeems himself during their confinement unlike his treacherous accomplice Kirby. Rendall generates more than enough suspense and this suspense is doubled because he has some genuinely sympathetic characters. The irony of everything is a supermarket is usually where humans go to find food. Now, a Great White is caught in it and it is looking for food, or as the title implies 'bait.' If you are a shark aficionado, "Bait 3D" should keep your hooked.

jadavix "Bait" is a bad shark movie without enough ridiculous moments to become entertaining for that badness. When those moments come, they are pretty darn ridiculous, but not laughably so, for example:the movie opens with a shark attack that is perhaps the least realistic or frightening example of such a scene since the rubber shark in that '60s Batman movie. The standard doesn't improve much from here.the movie involves a tsunami that leaves people stranded in a flooded supermarket, stuck on top of shelves to keep out of the water, and stuck inside their cars in a parking garage. When the flood hits the garage the cars are completely submerged, and yet the people within them remain dry. When they got those cars, did they pay extra for submarines too?in what is still probably the movie's best scene, a heroic Asian man suits up in a makeshift diver's costume, weighing himself down with cans of food taped to his legs, and protecting himself from shark attacks with metal cages over his body. Most improbable yet, he has a snorkel he can use with a long hose allowing him to breathe underwater. Apparently they just found all this stuff floating around. If you were in a flooded supermarket and had to take shelter on top of a shelf, exactly how much diving equipment do you think you would find out of sheer luck?The movie quickly gets boring and derivative, up until the sharks, for there are actually two I believe, are dispatched in equally ridiculous ways: an underwater shotgun blast for one, a taser electrocution for the other. Tasers are designed to incapacitate people, and yet they can kill great whites? And shotguns work under water?

Spikeopath When a tsunami traps shoppers inside a coastal Australian supermarket, their survival prospects are reduced even further when Great White Sharks find their way into the area.It's as nutty as it sounds, a bonkers but wonderfully genius premise is played out with "B" movie heart and a smile on its face. Standard rules apply, there's a myriad of characters who are in need of redemption or reconciliations, and of course it's a time for heroes and villains to thrust themselves forward. Action and suspense is never far away, and neither is blood! There's even some humour to be found, especially with a bickering couple of teenage lovers.Some of the CGI is poor and as is the norm with this type of film, there's daft scenes that ask you to just roll with it. If you can do that then there's a good time to be had here. 6/10

Tensman Saw this one on SyFy; the only clue that this film wasn't one of their house movies was the appearance of more money spent (somewhere around $20 million, I now see). It's not easy to make a GOOD shark flick but people keep trying. The Aussies know more about sharks than the Americans, but both will settle for garbage sometimes. The story is not challenging, and the pace is just so slow. The actors also seemed to be waiting for their turn to speak at times, so it was better when things picked up a bit. If a film can make you feel stupid for viewing it, this is in that category. I'm not sure why the Chinese audience reportedly poured millions into seeing this, but that could be due to their TV choices being tepid documentaries, government news or 1960's style variety shows. Compared to that, I'd recommend "Bait" but for no other reasons.