somewhat funny and well paced action thriller that have jamie foxx a a hapless and fast talk hoodlum who be choose by an overly demanding u. s. treasury agent ( david morse ) to be release on the street of new york to find a picky computer thief or hacker ( doug hutchinson ) and who steal forty two million dollar from the treasury and leave two guard shoot dead . bait mark the sophomore feature for antoine fuqua ( the replacement killer ) and he handle the task fairly well even though it doesn not top his first movie . what the two film have in common be the action sequence and which be flat out excellent . foxx be pretty good here although his character be annoy in the beginning and but throughout the film and i begin to catch on . hutchinson be marvelous a the mastermind who can be ruthless a john malkovich and patient a the late laurence olivier be in marathon man . morse be okay a the agent who come up with the ingenious plan to get whoever do it at all cost .