The Bait (2010)
- Original title
- L'appât
- Directed by
- Yves Simoneau
- Genre
- action film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Rating
- 4.2 of 10 from 12 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A clumsy Montreal cop witnesses a mafia boss's death. A French secret agent goes undercover as his new partner to retrieve information about the killing. The mismatched duo stumbles into a conspiracy that reaches their own superiors.
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What happens
The Bait (French: L’Appât) is a 2010 Canadian crime comedy film, directed by Yves Simoneau. The film stars Guy A. Lepage as Prudent Poirier, a bumbling Montreal police officer who witnesses the death of mafia boss Carboni (Michel Perron), and Rachid Badouri as Mohammed Choukroune, a French secret service agent who is sent to Montreal to pose as "Ventura", a new police recruit who is paired with Prudent in an attempt to recover information about Carboni's death. As the mission goes awry, however, the two are forced to uncover a wider conspiracy that implicates their own bosses as well. The film's cast also includes Serge Dupire, Maxim Roy, Ayisha Issa, Romano Orzari, Marie-Josée Boudreau, Frédérique Pierre, Khadija Assad, Sasha Samar, Gregory Hlady, Manuel Tadros and Sylvie Lemay. Simoneau's first French-language film since moving into English-language film and television after In the Belly of the Dragon (Dans le ventre du dragon) in 1989, the film entered production in September 2010. Initially intended for release in 2011, it was released to theatres by December 2010 following a rapid "merry-go-round" of production and post-production which Simoneau attributed to his experience working within the quicker turnaround of television films. The film's soundtrack included a song, "Your Favourite Killer", by Marie-Mai. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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