Agent Vinod (2012)

Pretty Good

Fresh and Exciting

best movie i've ever seen.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Giving 6 out of 10 while comparing this movie with James Bond series.Positive/Negative: 1. Nice plot for the first part of this new series, but screenplay could have been more interested by only if roles of the actors had been picked up with the pace of the storyline, and I felt Rajat Sharma and Gulshan Grover were wasted with their lame roles, But anyhow "Taimoor Pasha" might be useful in their next sequel.2. Actors are nice but it could have been excellent. Saif needs to look more like a spy and not like a college going boy (only Dress-ups). Kareena was excellent so as Ram Kapoor and Adil Hussain.3. Item Girls are okay but not top of the line; only Malika Haydon was good but she has not shown enough like Bond gals. other wise that Russian gal was so so.4. Camero was used which was old and outdated for a spy movies when they have shown Bugatti Veyron in a Punjab video. 5. Neulcear bomb was like a playing machine it could have been like real nuclear weapon next time try GOGGLE for this thing6. Action scenes were lame comparing with James Bond but far better than "Ek Tha tiger", "Rowdy Rathore", "Dabbang" or "Ready".---------------------------------------------------------------------Anyways there is a famous phase "Rome wasn't built in one day" Will see the next movie with more expectations.---------------------------------------------------------------------Note: this movie is not for those who like Rowdy Rathore Ready or bullshit.

No Story-line, No proper Direction. The film was nothing but a useless waste of time and money and mood. Saif Ali khan was as usual awful. His foreign accent does not help this crap. And again what Kareena Kapoor was doing in the whole film. Not only in this one but in Ra.one, 3- Idiots, Bodyguard. She ate all our brain stuffs by showing non sense. This film is a disappointment from the director after Johnny gadder and ek hasina thi. And why the hell saif Ali khan was comparing this film with James bond films or Bourne films or the villains in tintin. Is he mad? Any way just avoid this movie this is total waste of time and money. And saif please do films which have a proper meaning The good thing about agent Vinod is that it's not in 3D. This is not an action movie, it just a movie where someone kills someone, that's it. The most idiotic thing about the film is that a bullet is sufficient to kill Vinod but then, again we have to face lame action moves. Why was there Rajat Kapoor and Gulshan Grover? They come and go, they do nothing.But why did even writers come up with those characters.Agent Vinod is not an intelligent, smart film and it doesn't come up with anything new. This spy has license to boredom.

I don't understand why everyone seems to be criticizing this movie of being lengthy and boring!! well on a personal note, i absolutely loved it! It was more like an Indian (Desi) version of the Bourne series or even the James Bond! As far as acting is concerned, i believe the young nawab (Saif) has done a wonderful job and so has all the other characters. I see that lots of people are hating it due to the Pakistan (ISI) connection, which i do understand was indeed exaggerated. Also due to this the movie was banned in Pakistan. However, talking from a strict entertainer perspective, this is a complete package of everything. You get action, adventure, thrill, humor, and nonetheless Saif's and Kareena's light hearted love and hate relationship.I've rated the movie 9/10. Although i just wanted to give it 7, but since i wanna appreciate such cinema and want the Indian film industry to carry on with such experiments i added 2 more points.

If a movie is to be considered good, it should qualify for that as a whole. If certain (or even all) parts of the movie are good but they do not work together in tandem with consistency and harmony to provide a satisfactory experience to the spectator, the movie cannot be admired. This is what has happened with Agent Vinod. It has great action and thrill, a very good entertaining song (in the style of Bollywood during the sixties to the eighties), admirable performances from the lead actors and finally a very good story with an impressive climax lasting for 20-25 minutes. There are many skilfully executed scenes in the movie (alongwith certain childish sequences as well). All the same, I won't consider it as a brilliant entertainer. It's just an above average movie, something that we did not expect when a talented director like Sriram Raghavan was behind the camera and a talented actor like Saif Ali Khan was in front of the camera. It's a let down from the Saif-Raghavan duo who had delivered a brilliant thriller like Ek Hasina Thi (2004) from the Ram Gopal Varma Camp.Agent Vinod, as the name suggests, is the story of an agent of the Indian Intelligence (RAW, to be precise) who gets an assignment to dig out the circumstances in which another agent (Ravi Kishan) had lost his life. The investigative and daredevil activities of this agent, Vinod (Saif Ali Khan) brings him into contact with a pretty but daredevil (like him) girl, Ira Parveen (Kareena Kapoor). There are several baddies in the scenario, coming across whom the adventures of these two unearth the plot of a nuclear explosion. Finally, the hero succeeds not only in preventing the nuclear explosion but also in reaching the real planner of these events whose wicked activities are hidden from the eyes of the world.The narrative of Agent Vinod moves through several countries (even my counting failed) and contains several blows and counter-blows between the goodies and the baddies with countless heads rolling in the process. As per my understanding, the intelligence agents or the spies are trained in such a way that they rise above emotions and not moved by mishaps in the lives of the individuals (whether in own life or in the lives of the other ones). However our filmwaalas are yet to come out of the earlier era and the old-fashioned sentimental twists are still kept to tone down the profoundness of the story (and play with the sentiments of the Indian viewers as well).The narrative is fast-paced, no doubt but this pace does not allow the viewer to understand the movement of the story and the meaning of different things shown on the screen in a proper way. Events running on the screen are known to the director because the film is nothing but a realization of his vision only. However my dear Mr. Sriram Raghavan, they should be understood by the audience too whom the movie is ultimately meant for. And that's why when the mastermind is unmasked in the ending reel, it does not look convincing because even the most intelligent and logical viewer cannot connect him to the baddies that had already come before him in the movie (and cannot make out the connection of the baddies among themselves also). Should we believe that a sovereign country like Pakistan and its intelligence wing, ISI work for an individual who has his own axe to grind through their operations ? Too far-fetched. Putting it straight, the many good parts of the movie do not act together to make the movie impressive and entertaining as a whole.The movie boasts of a huge production value and the different locales of the many countries involved have been portrayed beautifully on the screen. Technical aspects are superb except the editing part. The movie is just too long and that's why starts boring the viewer. It should have been short by at least 15-20 minutes. Action sequences and thrills (especially in the final reels) are the essence of the movie. The final phase of the movie (final 20-25 minutes) is the most interesting and gripping part of it.As far as the music composed by Preetam is concerned, it's according to the mood of the movie. I won't term it as excellent. Only the Mujra song picturized in the old fashioned way is impressive in listening to as well as watching on the screen. And quite interestingly, Maryam Zakaaria looks better than Kareena Kapoor in that song.Performances are praiseworthy. Saif Ali Khan is a very good actor who has groomed himself to such an extent that he can fit the bill for any role. He is the heart and soul of the movie and the movie deserves a watch for his fans. Kareena Kapoor has also done well alongwith her pretty looks though her character confuses at many places. She dies in the end because our filmmakers are still not gutsy enough to show an Indian Hindu male marrying a Pakistani Muslim girl. The supporting cast is routine. My final words - Agent Vinod is strictly a one time watch and that too for the action-loving audience. It's a collection of some good parts which do not sum up to a coherent whole. Frankly speaking, this movie, in its major part, is just like a jigsaw puzzle which instead of entertaining the viewer, leaves him mentally exhausted in trying to join its pieces together in the correct way.