Agent Vinod Movie Reviews


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  • Taran Adarsh

    4.0

    Taran Adarsh | bollywoodhungama.com

    On the whole, AGENT VINOD is a hi-octane espionage thriller with a heart. It is not just brawny and dynamic, but witty and crazy too. Ultra slick and stylish, this desi Bond movie adheres to the formula and succeeds in meeting the humungous expectations. AGENT VINOD has all the potential to develop into a triumphant franchise!
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  • Martin D'Souza

    4.0

    Martin D'Souza | Glamsham

    In an espionage thriller you have to be glued to the screen to catch the goings-on. And in Agent Vinod the trail moves from Uzbekistan, to Morocco, to Pakistan, to South Africa, to India, to London... All in search of fixing the link on a nuclear terror attack planned on India. It's a cat and mouse game involving sophisticated gadgets, undercover terrorists and a few who claim to be on your side. But are they really? Agent Vinod has to trust his gut instinct on which he has to believe.
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  • Rachit Gupta

    4.0

    Rachit Gupta | Filmfare

    The film tries too hard to be smarter than your average secret agent. And therein lays the fatal flaw. Raghavan packs in about half a dozen key characters that bring in their own twists to the tale. By the end of it, his film ends up asking the viewer to suspend a little too much disbelief. Not that it’s bad, we’re used to much worse. The fact that his action sequences deliver is undeniable. But a medley of actors in bit roles (Gulshan Grover, Prem Chopra, Ravi Kissen, Dhritiman Chaterji and Arif Zakaria) just shows a filmmaker trying to balance the equation.
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  • Gaurav Malani

    4.0

    Gaurav Malani | Times of India

    The film starts with an interesting prologue in Afghanistan and ends with a witty epilogue in London. How we wish the globetrotting in between was as much compelling. The film is entertaining but not in entirety. Agent Vinod gets the nod though not whole-heartedly!
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  • Indo-Asian News Service

    3.5

    Indo-Asian News Service | NDTV Movies

    Agent Vinod is not quite the overwhelming experience that you would want a global espionage thriller to be. More thoughtful than thundering, more la Carre and less Bond it nonetheless take the spy genre in Hindi to a new level of finesse. Finally, the cool quotient in Raghavan's chic spin on the espionage thriller is so high that you forget Bond and all his bloody brothers.
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  • Trisha Gupta

    3.5

    Trisha Gupta | Firstpost

    Agent Vinod is the sort of swashbuckling thriller that Hindi cinema used to do a lot of in the James-Bond-inspired 60s and 70s, but simply doesn’t do any more: a ridiculously flamboyant hero, a toothsome femme fatale (or three) and a whole galaxy of fiendish villains, all moving through a series of exotic locales in pursuit of some deliberately over-the-top Macguffin, like a “secret faarmula” that could save or sabotage the nation. The original Agent Vinod (1977) featured Mahendra Sandhu
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  • Blessy Chettiar

    3.0

    Blessy Chettiar | DNA India

    Agent Vinod is smartly put together and works because of Saif. That is enough reason for you to go watch it.
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  • BMS Editor

    3.0

    BMS Editor | bookmyshow

    Director: Sriram Raghavan   Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Ram Kapoor, Gulshan Grover, Prem Chopra   Synopsis: The story begins with......
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  • Anupama Chopra

    2.5

    Anupama Chopra | Hindustan Times

    There is enough to admire in Agent Vinod. Writer-director Sriram Raghavan’s globe-trotting tale of a RAW agent ticks off all the boxes for a thriller franchise: There are at least half a dozen exotic locations (we start in a place aptly named the Desert of Death in Afghanistan and touch down in various locales including Morocco, Moscow, Riga and Somalia), several femme fatales, elaborate action, an assortment of villains and a suitcase bomb that sets the events
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  • Madhureeta Mukherjee

    2.5

    Madhureeta Mukherjee | Times of India

    Director Sriram Raghavan, who's made fine mind-twisters (Ek Haseena Thi, Johnny Gaddaar), attempts a spy-thriller this time. His obsession for retro reflects here again, whether it's casting Prem Chopra and Gulshan Grover, references to classics, or infusing soundtracks from the bygone era. Aaah! Nostalgia! 'Agent Vinod' is slick and visually stylized, but loses steam at times. The movie is a tad long and often creatively compromised - for style over substance. With well-designed stunts and car chases, there are very few high points or shock value.
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  • Raja Sen

    2.5

    Raja Sen | rediff.com

    Why Agent Vinod would work as a game despite (or maybe aided by) its flaws is because in a game, we need the hero to be essentially blank, an attractive shell we, as players with joysticks in hand, willingly flesh out by making into an extension of our own personality. In a film (and especially a secret agent film, for Bond's sake!) that combination of character, personality and plot needs to dominate us, amuse us, win us over, take us on a ride and seduce us. Agent Vinod may be the best looking actioner we've seen, and Sriram Raghavan may be a unanimous choice to hold the joystick, but watching him play this particular game shows him distracted by the window dressing -- and not trying hard enough to save the princess.
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  • Kaveree Bamzai

    2.5

    Kaveree Bamzai | India Today

    It doesn't work. And it's because Raghavan, the master of cool, doesn't keep it cool enough. He makes the time honoured mistake of succumbing to the considerable charms of his lead pair and makes it mawkish. So mawkish that it induces sniggers. Which is a pity because he'd been doing fine till then, ticking along nicely, taking Vinod from planes, trains, beaten up Army jeeps, to sailboats, to motorbikes, even to a helicopter.
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  • Pooja Thakkar

    2.5

    Pooja Thakkar | Film Street Journal

    Sriram has hugely lost the plot this time around. Characters pop in and out without leaving behind a firm footprint. There was space available for a slick spy entertainer which Sriram Raghavan has failed to move into and occupy.
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  • Prateeksha Khot

    2.5

    Prateeksha Khot | Bollyspice

    Overall, the story has flaws, there is too much travelling to make you go dizzy and it’s not the Raghavan you wanted that you see. But it’s not all that bad either. The movie works in bits and parts and shines in a few sequences. A one-time watch.
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  • Aniruddha Guha

    2.0

    Aniruddha Guha | Hindustan Times

    Sriram Raghavan’s Agent Vinod is brilliant in bits, and incredibly asinine in others. It’s probably the most inconsistently good film I’ve watched lately, and a massive letdown. Which is a pity. It could have made for a rare, looked-forward-to franchise.
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  • Rajeev Masand

    2.0

    Rajeev Masand | ibnlive.com

    It's moments like these – sadly too few and far between – that bring a smile to your face during the two hours and forty-odd minutes of this disappointing film. Director Sriram Raghavan ,who gave us such taut thrillers as Ek Hasina Thi and Johnny Gadaar previously, injects Agent Vinod with so many varied influences that it never finds its own distinct identity.
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  • Mrigank Dhaniwala

    2.0

    Mrigank Dhaniwala | Koimoi

    The ordinary story; the unnecessarily confusing script; the lack of an emotional connection between the audience and the protagonist; the absence of chemistry between Saif and Kareena’s characters; the laughable climax.
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  • Khalid Mohamed

    2.0

    Khalid Mohamed | Deccan Chronicle

    Of the cast, the baddies are nothing to write to the devil about. Kareena Kapoor is so restrained and melancholic that you wish she had interpreted the character far more dynamically. Saif Ali Khan, who also goes bare-chested a la Salman Khan for a trice, is unconvincing, blowing hot-and-cold as Agent Mahendra Sandhu, Vinod Khanna, Whaaaatever. Suggestion: if you do venture into this at best, average Agent Vinod, carry a huge thermos of coffee to stay awake.
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  • Shubhra Gupta

    2.0

    Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express

    The new ‘Agent Vinod’ checks off each item on the list, holding out the promise of a well-crafted, high octane spy thriller. But practically from the moment it started to unspool, I began being assailed first by doubt, then with sinking conviction : this was not the Sriram Raghavan film I’d been waiting for. This around-the-world in two-and-a-half very long hours is all dressed up, with some slick set-pieces, but it spends most of its time in plodding through genre conventions. Where’s the crackle?
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  • Suparna Sharma

    1.5

    Suparna Sharma | The Asian Age

    A thriller with no thrill. Agent Vinod has one or two nice scenes, like the shootout in a hotel lobby in Riga which is stylish, lyrical, like the ballad that plays in the background. But like all things here, it’s meshed in with so much claptrap that you don’t really care.
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  • movielover4

    3.0

    Da Vinod Code

    movielover4, 9 years ago
    This is nice movie. I liked it.
  • movielover4

    1.5

    A Mocking Review

    movielover4, 9 years ago
    This is one time watch. You can watch this movie to pass your time.
  • hindicritic

    2.5

    Agent Vinod: More of Style & glitz & No substance

    hindicritic, 9 years ago
    This is nice movie. I liked it.
  • markpaul12

    2.0

    Ppphuski Bomb………………..

    markpaul12, 9 years ago
    This is one time watch. You can watch this movie to pass your time.
  • prakashreddy9

    3.5

    AV = Indian 007 + Music - Hot Romance

    prakashreddy9, 9 years ago
    Super hit movie. I loved everything about this movie.
  • thomas.richard

    2.5

    Pungi kiski bajegi?

    thomas.richard, 9 years ago
    This is nice movie. I liked it.
  • jeevan789

    3.0

    Worst Spy movie ever

    jeevan789, 9 years ago
    This is nice movie. I liked it.
  • prakashreddy9

    5.0

    MR BOND ALIKE

    prakashreddy9, 9 years ago
    This is one of best movie of all time.
  • movielover4

    5.0

    AGENT VINOD 100% HIT

    movielover4, 9 years ago
    This is one of best movie of all time.

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