Critic Reviews

• Simon Abrams, Village Voice

  [It] has many flaws, the foremost among these is the inability to indicate whether we're supposed to consider the savage behavior brought on by its crises as ambiguous or unassailably good.

• Guy Lodge, Variety

  This likable trash occasionally outsmarts more moneyed Hollywood fish features.

• Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times

  Rendall and screenwriters Russell Mulcahy and John Kim forget that in between bursts of tart, blood-drenched mayhem, there's a saggy, dumb chamber drama that's completely bland and under-seasoned.

• Jamie Graham, Total Film

  More funny than scary, it often feels like Deep Blue Sea meets The Mist... but what's wrong with that?

• Philip French, Observer [UK]

  Bait is fairly exciting, ingenious, well designed, and is perhaps a clever advertisement for online grocery shopping.

• Derek Malcolm, This is London

  Jaws it ain't.

• Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]

  It is all very silly, and more Corman than Spielberg, but entertaining.

• David Jenkins, Little White Lies

  You've seen this movie without even seeing it.

• Matthew Turner, ViewLondon

  Enormous fun, thanks to pacey direction, strong performances, a number of nicely handled gory bits and a script that pays close attention to the demands of the shark attack genre movie.

• Anton Bitel, Sight and Sound

  Carp all you like at how subtext, plausibility and sense have been sacrificed to this film's high concept, but all the stereoscopic slaughter is irresistibly appealing.

• Michelle Alexandria, Eclipse Magazine

  The movie is called Bait 3D, where is the Shark? It takes a long time before the Shark starts chomping people. It just wasn't as campy or bloody as it probably should have been. It is well worth a rental.

• Dominic Corry, Flicks.co.nz

  It's not spectacular, but it is good enough to see on the big screen.

• Steve "Uncle Creepy" Barton, Dread Central

  It's non-stop bloody fun from start to finish and one that you certainly should invite some friends over to dig on with you... again and again.

• Adam Ross, The Aristocrat

  ...my atheism will be cemented if this earns its money back.

• Matthew Pejkovic, Matt's Movie Reviews

  Had director Kimbell Rendall, his 6 screenwriters, and the studio brass focused on creating a good film rather than selling a glossy product, then humiliation would have been avoided.

• Matthew Toomey, ABC Radio Brisbane

  Bait takes itself way too seriously and there are only a handful of witty one-liners. It leaves us with a flat thriller starring a bunch of characters we couldn't care less about.

• Jim Schembri, 3AW

  Sounds like loads of fun - and it should have been.

• Matt Donato, We Got This Covered

  To say Bait features flawed logic is an understatement, but what can you expect when a shark floats down the produce section of your local grocer?

• Margaret Pomeranz, At the Movies (Australia)

  Think this is absolutely a genre film for a specific audience and I think it will deliver to that audience.

• David Stratton, At the Movies (Australia)

  Would it have been so hard to find really interesting characters, characters to involve the audience and make us care as to whether or not they'll wind up as fish food?

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