Phoenixphire81 I just had to give this film a go after reading the ridiculous synopsis. However, it was not as bad as I expected. It is full of character clichés and obvious plot developments but it's still actually quite watchable. The acting is OK, no mind blowing performances here. A couple of known faces turn up in form of Julian McMahon (Fantastic 4) and Alex Russel (Chronicle) but the rest of the cast are relatively unknown other than the fact that everyone seems to have been in Home and Away at some point. The film moves at a steady pace and does have some tense scenes and some wonderfully gruesome deaths...but mostly this is just B movie tat without the sense of humour that usually comes with that genre. The films also loses points for some truly shocking CGI when it comes to the tsunami and indeed the sharks. Still...I watched till the end.

msblackeyes68 I broke my leg a few months ago and started watching movies. I'm huge on horror. Animals attack type and suspense and of course cheesy 50's and 60's classics. I'm not easily entertained and I have shut off my share of movies. I won't waste 2 hours on a dud. That said lets get on with the review already. First I didn't shut off the movie and that says a lot right there. And in no time did I even consider it. This wasn't in anyway "jaws" or "deep blue sea". BUT it is worth watching if you like shark movies. Movie starts in store where the characters are introduced and back stories are created. Then out of nowhere. (In a world that has all type of warning devices) a huge tsunami barrels down on a little beach community. A robbery is going down in a grocery store and just before more people are take out by the gun man the ocean comes crashing thru. The survivors pull themselves up on shelves to wait for help. Hey if they get hungry they just have to reach down and grab the bad of Doritos floating by. The rest of the movie is all about survivoral and ways to kill the now meat eating 12 foot sharks whose had a taste for live bait. Positive: The shark didn't look like blow up sharks like they do in some. They move and look like the real thing. Characters actually have back stories that didn't bore you to death. The acting was actually half decent and the script isn't boring and have people just talking to fill in time. . And of course they added the one person everyone wants to be eaten and they don't disappoint Negative. I think they could have came up with a much better way to kill shark number 2. I don't understand how the store is half flooded yet the underground garage directly underneath has water but only to the roof of the cars AND yet the stairwells between the two levels is completely under water. How does that work?!?Anyways back to my recommendation. Don't go in expecting jaws. Don't go in thinking your going to see stunning scenery (the common place of finding a shark). Don't expect Oscar winners or memorable one liners. or you will sorely disappointed. But if you tell yourself it's a b+ movie and your just wanting to be entertained to a few hours. Then you. Will. As I write this I am watching jersey shore shark attack....... I'll be shutting it off... NOW!!

DigitalRevenantX7 A tsunami hits the Queensland, Australia town of Oceania, killing scores of people & bringing devastation to the town. In a supermarket, several survivors – the supermarket's owner & three of his employees (one of whom was a former lifeguard), a young shoplifter & her police officer father, two young couples (one of whom is trapped inside their car in the underground car park), a security guard & two armed robbers – emerge from the water, seeking refuge on the shelves. They discover that the building's exits are blocked but that is not the worst of it – a pair of great white sharks are prowling the aisles, picking off anyone foolish to enter the water.If you thought that the Asylum-produced cult flick Sharknado was the most ridiculous killer shark film ever to grace the screen, then you've probably never heard of Bait, an Australian-Singaporean joint production which came out in 2012 & tried to replicate the basics of JAWS, only with lesser effort & in 3D.Whichever way you look at it, Bait suffers from a real stinker of a script. The premise is ridiculous to begin with – sharks hunting people through a flooded supermarket – although the poor disaster-movie plotting & contrived plot devices really nail this one in the groin.The film frequently swings silly plot devices that don't work, no matter which way you try to rationalise it – one survivor tries to wade past the sharks by using an improvised shark cage made of supermarket trolleys & with food cans for weights in order to deactivate the power switch (this scene made me unable to contain my laughter); several attempts to escape that don't end well (namely one example where the store's owner tries to climb into a duct, only to lose his grip & get bitten in half by the shark); the idiot couple that spend their time bickering in their submerged car over such inanities as not charging their cell phones (even if they worked, their reception would have been nonexistent since the tsunami would have knocked out cell phone towers in the area) & whether the woman's Gucci shoes are real or not. The climactic scene with Xavier Samuel taking on the shark with only a Taser pistol is nowhere even near the stature of Sheriff Brody's standoff with the shark in Jaws but it does have some funny element to it.Some of the actors do a good job with the slight material they have but others are just plain idiotic. And I never understood how an overloaded car battery can blast a hole in a fence in order to provide a way out.

wes-connors Off the east coast of Australia, attractive lifeguard Xavier Samuel (as Josh) is making out with super-slender girlfriend Sharni Vinson (as Tina) when a shark attack occurs. The great white shark eats a couple of people. Later, after the TV news issues warnings about sharks gathering off shore, an even worse disaster hits the area. Look out, it's a tsunami! The aforementioned couple and a small group of others are trapped at the flooded "Oceania Food Mart" and its underground parking lot. They are joined by a couple of very hungry sharks...Just when you think they've run out of ideas, along comes a "sharks in the grocery store" movie. At least, this is something different. The characters are not too appealing, but director Kimble Rendall giving some of them a good send-off. Still, it does seem like an unnecessary number survive. The youthful cast members are all surprisingly fit, as is often the case in these films. The leading woman, Ms. Vinson represents the "skinny" body type well. Nicely constructed set direction and photography by Ross Emery are strengths.***** Bait (2012-09-05) Kimble Rendall ~ Xavier Samuel, Sharni Vinson, Alex Russell, Phoebe Tonkin