Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Blistering performances.

Awful. There is nothing interesting about police setting up traps. It is one thing to go catch active criminals, and a terrible other to provoke and create criminals. We have enough crime for them to fight, rather than them enticing minorities for TV ratings. America is a joke. This shouldn't be legal. These cops afraid to catch the real bad guys. We will so much to be "entertained" that we disregard a certain level of morals and ethics to those who should uphold them.I think their focus should be on the cars that have already been stolen, rather than sitting around waiting for someone to steal a car that they have planted. What low grade type of police work is this.....smh

I loved the show. Maybe, during it's run car thefts may have gone down? Where the vehicles were placed should have had no bearing on a persons decision to commit theft. I love the real life stuff where if, you can't go the time don't commit the crime should applyI saw many characters that had drugs and long extensive histories of taking stuff that didn't belong to them. Racial profiling didn't apply in the cases I saw many were career criminals that deserved to be arrested and convicted of what they were doing.think of the people living in those areas that were affected by the actions of these folks?What about those that come from other places or Cities to target certain neighborhoods?

It goes like this: Assemble your team of cops, take your team and your Bait Car to an area as heavily Black and/or Latino as you can find, drop the car off while making it as obvious as possible that it's unlocked and the keys are in it, and wait for the dumb-ass. Once in a great while that dumb-ass will be other than Black or Latino, but it's obvious that AREAS that are primarily Black and/or Latino is the overriding prerequisite for deciding where to drop the car. You'll watch the featured city's PD "set up" in supposedly "where the car thefts are most-often occurring", but almost never include (for the show,at least) an operation in any high-theft area that ISN'T populated primarily by Blacks and/or Latinos. The show appears to be trying to advance the premise that us White folks aren't committing these crimes as much, by as much as possible avoiding placing the bait where us White folks could see it.

Bait Car has got to be one of the most boring, and most repetitive shows I have ever seen on TV. The premise is that cops set up Bait Cars in areas that criminals have been stealing them from. An episode of the series works like this. Cops plant car, criminals come and steal, cops follow, cops shut car down, criminals are caught and questioned, and repeat for 30 minutes. That is literally all there is to this show. Sure every once in a very blue moon, a citizen will report the bait car, but that's really it to variety. There's no tension at all to the chases at all either. The criminals always get caught which is good, but there's no high speed chases or stand outs or anything like that. Some have said that it helps catch criminals, but I think car thieves who watch this show will not go for the cars with keys inside, and learn to hot wire a vehicle instead. It's so pointless and it's just so stupid. I hope this show gets canned really fast.Final thoughts: Unless you want a show that will bore you to death, and has no real action or tension to it, then stay far away from Bait Car, and put on World's Dumbest instead.