Alvin Dean Sanders doesn't get it. He doesn't know why his conviction for small-time theft is wiped from the record -- piff! -- just like that. Or why $11,500 in walking-around money is laid on him. Alvin doesn't know he's the bait in a snaky government scheme to capture a killer. But he's starting to grow suspicious.

Jamie Foxx (Any Given Sunday) plays Alvin, reeling in laughs and heroics in a high-tech action comedy, directed by Antoine Fuqua (The Replacement Killers) and also starring The Green Mile's David Morse and Doug Hutchison, Set It Off's Kimberly Elise and Jamie Kennedy (the Scream trilogy). The style is cutting-edge cool, the humor is crazy as a Foxx. Bait is a caper that -- hook, line and sinker -- just might grab you.