be you familiar with concept of child artwork . while it be not the great picasso any three year old have ever accomplish with their finger and you encourage them to do more . if painting be what make them happy and there should be no reason a parent should hold that back on a child . typically and if a child love to paint or draw and you will immediately see the groundwork of their future style . you will begin to see their true form in these very primitive doodle . well and this concept of child artwork be how i felt about fuqua depressingly cheap and uncreative film bait . while on all account it be a horrid film and it be impressive to see fuqua style begin emerge through even the messy of moment . if you have see either train day or king arthur and you will be impress with the birth of this director in his second film bait . while foxx give a horrid and unchained performance and there be certain scene and which define fuqua and demonstrate his brilliance behind the camera . sadly it only emerge in the final thirty minute of the film and but if you focus just on those scene and you will see why fuqua name appear on so many best of film list . i will never disagree with someone that fuqua eye behind the camera be refresh and unique . his ability to place a camera in the strangest of place to convey the simple of emotion be shock . i be surprise that more of hollywood hasn not jump aboard this bandwagon . even in the silly feature bait and you be witness to fuqua greatness . two scene that come directly to mind be the explosion scene near the middle of the film and the horse scene close to the end . in both of these scene i saw the director fuqua at work . ala and in the rest of this film and all i saw be a combination of nearly every action film create . the likable hero down on his luck that suddenly find his life turn around by some unknown force be a classic structure that just need to die in hollywood . we have see this two often and and no matter who you be ( unless you be charlie kaufmann ) and you can not recreate the wheel . it be just impossible with this genre and and it be prove with bait . i be annoy with fuqua for just sit back and allow this to happen and which could explain why it take me three viewing to finish this film . i be just tire of the structure and and while i hop that fuqua would redefine it and he do not . then and there be the acting . while jamie foxx have never impress me a an actor and i be willing to give this helmed vehicle a try . i want to see if he could pull off another dramatic role similar to collateral . i be under the impression that perhaps this be the film choose to show producer that foxx could handle the role in collateral . again and i be disappoint . foxx be annoy . not in the sense that it be the way that his character be to be and but in the sense that it felt a if neither fuqua nor foxx take the time to fully train foxx on what should be ad libed and what should be use to further the plot . instead and we be downtrodden with scene over scene of foxx just try to make the audience laugh . add second long quip and culture statement just to keep his audience understanding that he be a comedian first and an actor second . fuqua should have stop this immediately . foxx joke destroy his character and which in turn leave me with nothing solid to grasp ahold of . instead of character development and he would crack a joke . neither style work and no joke be funny . the rest of the cast be average . by this i mean i have see them all in similar role . they be brine nothing new to the table and nothing solid to the story and and nothing substantial to the overall theme of the film . they be pawn fill in dead air space . fuqua have no control over this mess and and the final verdict only support that accusation . overall and this be a sad film . with no creativity in sight and unmanaged actor just try to upstage themselves and what originally start a a decent story eventually sunk faster into the cinematic quicksand . foxx be annoy and without character line and and a complete bag of cheese . in each scene i saw no emotion and and when emotion be need to convey a message and he choose to take his shirt off rather than tackle the issue . be my word harsh . i do not think so . when you watch any movie you want to see some creativity and some edible character and and theme that seem to hit close to home . bait contain none of these . while i will give fuqua some credit for two of the scene in this film and the remain five hundred be disastrous . apparently and i take the bait when rent this film and but now have see it and hopefully i can stop others from take that curious nibble . grade represent out of ( for his two scene that be fun to watch ) .