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THE BATTALION
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Bait
Starring Jamie Foxx and David Morse
Directed by Antoine Fuqua
Now Playing at Hollywood 16
Since Jamie Foxx’s last film, the easily forgettable
Held Up, failed to make even a ripple at the box office,
one would think it a risky proposition for him to head
line another film. Directed by the talented Antoine
Fuqua (The Replacement Killers) and backed up with a
superb supporting cast of David Morse, Jamie
Kennedy, Doug Hutchinson and Robert Pastorelli, Bait
dispels any such notion as it laughs and explodes its
way through a fairly entertaining time at the movies.
Foxx plays Alvin Sanders, a career criminal busted
for stealing shrimp from a seafood factory. In jail, yet
again Foxx’s character is placed in a jail cell with Pas
torelli, who double-crossed his recent partner in a rob
bery of the Federal Reserve and then hid the money.
The tough-as-nails Treasury agent shows up played
with an uncharacteristic vehemence by Morse, and. af
ter the Pastorelli’s character’s untimely death, the agent
decides to use Alvin as bait to lure the other robber out
of hiding.
In the tradition of Beverly Hills Cop and any
Martin Lawrence movie, Bait attempts to cross the
appeal and humor of a young black comedian with
an action flick. No film since the original Cop has
succeeded, but, thanks to Fuqua’s eye-catching di
rection, this movie manages to rise above some re
cent releases.
Fuqua seems to have watched Michael Bay’s Bad
Boys several times — nearly every shot in Bait
seems borrowed. Fuqua uses an array of tracking
shots, refusing to let the camera sit still at moments
of rising tension. This adds excitement to a film that
is spread thin on action.
Foxx charms and laughs his way through this
movie holding it together between the scenes of
Fuqua’s energy.
Fast and funny, Bait comes close to being a good
movie. Momentary lapses in comedy and a number
of failed sub-plots turn this into a just-better-than-
average popcorn flick. (Grade: C+)
— Matt McCormick
Nurse Betty
Starring Renee Zellweger and
Morgan Freeman
Directed by Neil LaBute
Now Playing at Hollywood 16
Nurse Betty is a truly surprising
r ilm. Refreshingly original, this
novie has moments of true humor
:oupled with a dark mood. Ex-
remely charming, and at the same
ime quietly unsettling, Betty
ould be an Oscar contender in the
nonths to come.
A young waitress, played per
fectly by Zellweger, witnesses her
[rashy husband’s brutal murder
nd suffers a psychotic break. She
Is no longer Betty the wife — now
she is Nurse Betty, a character in
her favorite soap opera, ”A Reason
to Love.”
Nurse Betty then takes off on a
cross-country journey to reunite
with her character’s love interest,
played with oozing charm by Greg
Kinnear. The whole time she is
pursued by an odd pair of hitmen
played by Rock and Freeman.
This movie is a rarity because
of the numerous emotions it man
ages to pull from the audience. It
can make people squirm in their
seats while they are laughing.
Director Neil LaBute (In the
Company of Men ) does a nice job
directing this film because he real
izes it is Zellweger’s to carry, and
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Zellweger delivers one of the
most charming and heartbreaking
performances in years by a female
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She plays Betty with child-like in
nocence and her pretty face, look
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Freeman and Rock, good as al
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Betty is a deep and involving
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mas of the year. However, at times
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PU Services, Customer Operations, 1992-97 and as Home Service Advisor,
1977 (First job with TXU, then “Dallas Power & Light Company”).
Ms. Jackson has received numerous honors and awards, some of which are list
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• 1995- Women of Excellence Award from the YMCA and
Women’s Enterprise Magazine
• 1997- “A Woman of Power”, Black Enterprise Magazine
• 1998- Dallas Women’s Foundation Circle of honor
• 1999- Greater Dallas Chamber “Athena Award”
Texas A&M looks forward to her visit on our campus!