Bait (2012)

Simply Perfect

Memorable, crazy movie

Excellent adaptation.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The first good point is the fake opinion of viewer than he knows all about film before he see it. he knows the theme, the story, the genre, the end, the chain of cliches. in same measure, he knows "the tricks" of director. but... . "Bait" is different by the package of films about sharks. for the care for details. for performances. for tension who is not exactly same with the fear. for characters who are not anonimous silhouettes. and for a sort of freedom out of CGI. because , in many scenes, CGI is weak part. but the film propose an interesting story about links between different people and survive. and that is the basic virtue of it.

The title of the film is cleverly called Bait, because the writers couldn't think of a clever way to work "Shark" into a title that hasn't been used. The first 23 minutes of the film establishes the characters. Josh (Xavier Samuel) is our main character. His best friend is killed in the opening scene as he is engaged to his sister. She dumps him because... it makes for a better story. While all our main characters are in a grocery store and a robbery and shoplifting is going on, a tsunami strikes bringing with it a couple of very very hungry Great Whites. The scenes bounce between a flooded store with survivors on top of shelves and the parking garage with other trapped individuals.It is a question of who will live, who will die and how high will sharks jump out of water. Kudos on the tsunami thing, but all in all it is just your average Jaws III quality film.Parental Guide: F-bombs. No sex or nudity.

While I love movies about sharks and creatures, this one is super unrealistic. No shark behaves the way it is depicted in this. Sharks are scary, because they have the ability to kill a person, but they aren't bloodthirsty man killers. Anthropomorphism is a common thing for Hollywood to do to increase suspense for less informed viewers. This movie is entertaining, but every scene where the shark is involved is downright idiotic. It only reinforces that sharks are out to kill anything that moves, especially humans. This notion is completely false. Sharks do not actively seek out human beings. If anything, sharks try to avoid people, because they know that people 1) aren't in their regular diet, and 2) humans are extremely dangerous to sharks. Between long line fishing, nets, chum fishing and large fishing vessels, sharks are intelligent enough to to stay away from us. Sharks leaping out of the water to grab a person crawling above, makes no sense... especially after it has already fed a few times. The people who wrote this movie are dumber than real sharks, yet still obtain the motivation to make BS propaganda. They only perpetuate the unreal notions of the fear of sharks.

This bloody Australian production is completely terrible and should be avoided. It simply is too graphic in its depiction of dismemberment and slaughter. The wanton mayhem is just unholy in its utter intensity and there are uncountable scenes of human beings chomped in half or torn limb from limb. This is completely unacceptable. I recall seeing Jaws at the theater when it was first released and how everyone screamed when a single head floated into view. It was breathtakingly horrible. In this film, that is done over and over only with decomposing flesh and body parts galore. That we as audiences are so desensitized to such horrors today is certainly something that should be of deep concern both morally and spiritually.