Agent Vinod (2012)

This movie was brilliant and entertaining and enjoyable and storyline great and storyline enjoyable excellent performance and entertaining and storyline enjoyable and entertaining and enjoyable and storyline great and storyline enjoyable and entertaining and excellent Storyline is good screenplay is good editing is good direction is good Background music is superb and songs are really impressive Saif was outstanding kareena was good adil is brilliant Ravi is good ghulshan Grover is brilliant ram is good shahbaaz khan was good zakir was superb prem was good7/10

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.

Well let me start by saying that this film isn't for those who think Salman Khan is the best actor in the world, Ready and body guard are best films and Item numbers and 3rd class comedy is all what film should gross on at box office. Has anyone thought about why films like 'Game, players and now Agent Vinod' are continuously failing at box office, while films with Hollywood films of similar genre gross heavily at American and UK box office its actually the problem of audience in India and in Pakistan too(cause I am from Pakistan). Agent Vinod was a film for smart audience, It was at least a try to do something out of the box. In the whole world characters like Jason Bourne (Bourne trilogy), Ethan Hunt (MI Series), James Bond (James Bond films) are liked by masses and people are mad about their upcoming films and here in subcontinent we admire heroes like those from Om Shanti Om or Ready or even Golmaal. Anyways film was above average overall, action was quite good, some camera angles were really absurd that I couldn't understand why the scene is shot in that way, but still nice try to deviate. Yes there were too much characters, I don't think that many characters were needed. It was one of the very few films where it was at least tried to keep things as natural as possible, preciously in most of the films, if the shooting location had to be abroad, to keep themselves out of effort, filmmakers use to place characters of same language on those locations, like Indian police officers at Istanbul or Malaysia but here characters were kept original. Movie duration was too long that and was unnecessarily dragged I dun know. If it's some sort of a basic requirement for all Indian films to 2 hour+ duration then it's a real bad policy. Story was good, not that compact (most probably due to duration) but overall it was good. Characters were not only too much but weren't placed that well, the raw chief didn't look like one. An intelligence chief should be smart, handsome and quick like they portrayed the ISI chief. The ISI chief was looking dashing (and being a Pakistani I liked that). But seriously guys, Raw chief should have looked like one who deserves to be on that seat. The story was little bit confusing as well, some characters weren't described that well. Also at one side it was shown that ISI chief is so smart and the agency is so strong that it helps a doctor being escaped from a British jails and then operate her for their missions and on the hand a colonel is gone rogue and ISI has no information about it, and especially in such a case where that colonel isn't trusted well within the army too. If he isn't trusted, ISI would have been keeping an eye on him or something but no such thing..so directors and writers need to go in all such details as well. Music was good but wasn't really necessary. It seems like Indians think that Mujra is the supreme part of Pakistani events. it isn't like this, we don't have Mujra's on our wedding, For God's Sake, a wedding is a family event. So (if) filmmakers go for any sequel of this film (which I don't believe they would ever think of) then all such little details should be in their mind. In One line, Agent Vinod was Bond + Bourne + BoLLYWOOD + DRAGGED + NOT WELL THOUGHT = above average..

There was a lot of hype of Agent Vinod in all the Indian cable channels and the songs were all pretty catchy and was soon part of the local channels play-list.I had to stand in a queue to get my tickets for the movie however the movie was very disappointing and tried its best to emulate a Jason Bourne/James Bond styled flick and severely disappointed. the action could have been better as i tend to compare it with the action in Don 2 which was really top notch for a Bollywood flick. Agent Vinod has its ups and a majority of downs as it never really built on anyone's character.Wait a couple of months and the movie will be shown in cable, not worth buying a ticket for this.