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.

The predicament in director Kimble Rendall's "Jaws" like thriller "Bait 3D" distinguishes it from the usual habitat of a standard-issue shark movie. Imagine living in sunny Australia when a tsunami strikes, and you find yourself hopelessly trapped in a flooded supermarket with a 12-foot Great White Shark cruising the aisles. Now, take that high-concept a bit further, add a second Great White, but place it into an adjoining parking lot with another group of confined folks. Preposterous and predictable throughout its 93 minutes because you know who is going to get gobbled, "Bait 3D" manages to deliver a sufficient number of thrills. The CGI effects of a Great White making the rounds and the suspense that ensues whenever somebody winds up in the water compensates for the déjà vu factor. Furthermore, the characters are slightly interesting because they have all dealt with personal hardship. The chief characters are a cute couple who would have been married and go on about their lives happily ever after had a shark not eaten one of them. Josh (Xavier Samuel of "Love & Friendship'') is set to marry his shapely sweetheart, Tina (Sharni Vinson of "Step Up 3D"), when tragedy strikes. Tina's brother Rory (Richard Brancatisano of "Alex & Eve") threw a party for Josh the day before, and Josh is recovering from a hangover from the fabulous escapade. Suffice to say, Josh is too sick to set a life buoy in the ocean. Josh and Rory are lifeguards at the local beach. Rory paddles out to do what Josh is too ill to handle, and a Great White shark munches him along with another swimmer. Josh tried to reach Rory on a Jet-Ski, and he watches in horror as his friend is chomped to bits. Now, this unfortunate event traumatizes poor Josh, and he cannot bear to look Rory's sister Tina in the eye. Ultimately, they go their separate ways, until the present-day events happen.Meantime, aside from the Josh & Tina story, Rendall and his writers, including "Highlander's" Russell Mulcaly and John Kim, have provided several other characters. First, they give us a snotty babe with an attitude, Jaimie (Phoebe Tonkin of "Tomorrow, When the War Began"), who loves to shoplift. Not only does this get her in trouble with her police, as it turns out none other than her stern, pistol-packing father Colins (Martin Sacks), but it also costs her boyfriend, Ryan (Alex Russell of "Unbroken"), his job as a security guard. While all this is going on, two guys with guns, Doyle (Julian McMahon of "Nip/Tuck") and Kirby (Dan Wyllie of "Chopper"), try to rob the supermarket and . The chief difference is that Doyle doesn't kill anybody, but Kirby shoots girl point blank in the head. The only remaining character is the supermarket manager, Jessup (Adrian Pang of "Spy Game") who complains about everything and doesn't get eaten quickly enough by the predatory Great White. All these unfortunates and a few more find themselves stranded atop the merchandise display cases while they watch the shark swim around in search of his next snack. In the parking garage nearby, Ryan struggles to help a quarreling couple, Heather (television actress Cariba Heine) and his stuck-up boyfriend Kyle (Lincoln Lewis of "After Earth"), stuck in a car with their snippy pet pooch, while that second Great White churns the water.Rendall and his writers stick with the established formula that the good people are rewarded for their behavior while the bad ones are punished. Meaning, the good guys survive while the bad guys die. The exception to the rule is Julian McMahon's character; he redeems himself during their confinement unlike his treacherous accomplice Kirby. Rendall generates more than enough suspense and this suspense is doubled because he has some genuinely sympathetic characters. The irony of everything is a supermarket is usually where humans go to find food. Now, a Great White is caught in it and it is looking for food, or as the title implies 'bait.' If you are a shark aficionado, "Bait 3D" should keep your hooked.

A group of people who get trapped in a Supermarket after a Tsunami hits the coast of Queensland, Australia. But they soon find out that they have more to worry about than being in a flooded grocery store, there's a 12 foot badly CG shark swimming around them, and it's hungry.It's a high concept movie for sure, a group of people stuck in a shop with a hungry shark, and as concepts go, it's a pretty bonkers one for sure.And like Snakes On A Plane, it more or less does what it says on the tin, it should have been called Sharks In A Shark, but I'm sure some suit in the studio would think that people wouldn't then take the film seriously. And we want to take a film with this concept seriously......So we have some relatively famous faces, and some culturally friendly (for the overseas market) characters standing on shelving trying to survive. Every now and again, someone who you haven't see in a film before tries to escape, it looks like they are going to make it, but guess what? Exactly.......It's like a mini version of The Poseidon Adventure, minus major character arcs and drama, but it has all the ingredients of a disaster movie.The cast are fine, but you can guess who will make it, and who will lose bodily parts, it's pretty perfunctory in that way.My advice is, watch it in 2D, because it's hilarious to see things approach the screen with the 3D as a primary marketing ploy, rather than story.Still fun though.

When a tsunami traps shoppers inside a coastal Australian supermarket, their survival prospects are reduced even further when Great White Sharks find their way into the area.It's as nutty as it sounds, a bonkers but wonderfully genius premise is played out with "B" movie heart and a smile on its face. Standard rules apply, there's a myriad of characters who are in need of redemption or reconciliations, and of course it's a time for heroes and villains to thrust themselves forward. Action and suspense is never far away, and neither is blood! There's even some humour to be found, especially with a bickering couple of teenage lovers.Some of the CGI is poor and as is the norm with this type of film, there's daft scenes that ask you to just roll with it. If you can do that then there's a good time to be had here. 6/10