I mean, seriously, HOW could SO many people downright LOATHE this film? Yes, it's a departure from director Sriram Raghavan's past work. Yes, Kareena's character Iram is (the only character) badly written. Yes, Vinod may rely too much on luck at times, but that's the thing, isn't it?It's a MOVIE, a DREAM of the director, where ANYTHING can happen. And, to that respect, Agent Vinod is actually logical, and makes sense, something rare in Indian action flicks, since most are just rip-offs of South Indian actioners, with a single hero sending 20-30 baddies flying with one, hand movement, or whatever it is.The action is frantically energetic, but still controlled and realistic. Agent Vinod has many great gunfights, and feels a lot like an action- espionage video game more than a film. Which isn't bad.Nonetheless, Agent Vinod has great characters, and a nice plot, within all that action. Saif Ali Khan is sharp as RAW agent Vinod, and the supporting cast just add even more to the entire film by their performances as the numerous villains of Agent Vinod. Ram Kapoor and Adil Hussain, especially, are great.There are only a few problems I had with Agent Vinod. The underwritten and unnecessary female part of Kareena, leading to lack of the Saif- Kareena chemistry (which seemed to be the only thing that the dumb people watching this film cared about), and the songs are mediocre, I guess. Otherwise, you've got a pretty bombastic, explosive, yet smart espionage thriller that SHOULD have been the flagship Indian secret agent bonanza at the box office, if only the consumers would have cared less for masala, and more for good cinema, that's wholly entertaining as well as smart.

Having waited for his next movie for 3-4 years, I was expecting an excellent thriller, in line with his previous work. I would have been better off watching Ek Hasina Thi or Johnny Gaddar again. This movie probably has 10x the budget of the other two movies combined, but it fails flat out. Plot moves really slowly. Most characters are way too over the top for a movie for the genre it is trying to imitate. My guess is that the movie was spoiled with too many cooks being that this was an in part an in-house production from Saif & co. In the end, this movie fails to be a thriller or even an average entertainer. As many have commented, the pace is too slow for a movie of this kind. Just exotic locales are not enough, big budget can only go so far. I can't remember if there were any songs, if there were, I cannot recall any. Very weak.

Dhritiman Chaterji and other old actors are good. Old is gold. Saif should learn from them what is called acting. He trier to be Indian 007. But failed due to his acting and very very very poor script.the technical aspect is OK. better than other recent Indian movies. Karina is totally failed. unnecessary spoiling of bullets in over the movie. overall it is a total failures. According to Raghavan, Agent Vinod is not a remake of the 1977 action film of the same name. In an interview with Bollywood Hungama, he described it as "a realistic film [...with????] full of action pieces, thrills and characters. According to box office it proved that it is a total fail."Saif Ali Khan's home production failed miserably at box office and failed to even recover its cost. This was a huge setback for Saif who invested his 2 years in it and one more flop for real life couple Saif and Kareena."

Movie devoid the music is very good... Saif Ali Khan is a very talented actor and he has again proved that here... Though he is the "lesser" Khan of the industry, he has come up with an excellent performance here... I think that the movie still lacked some "big" names!!! Might have been a reason for its not so great performance, a part from the disastrously "composed" (read copied) music!!!No idea why people say that the music is good, it is good only because the original tracks were good!!! The worst plagiarism ever!!! It seems as if the music director Pritam Chakraborty had absolutely no shame!!! Any kindergarten child will say that all he can do is COPY!!! A shame for any musician, that is Pritam Chakraborty for you!!!That said, the movie is actually very good... The music in every bit was stolen and that is very evident not just in songs, but between the movie as well... One major reason I am for sure that the movie as a whole is a failure is because they had a stolen array of music which by itself was successful because the originals of the music were successful...Absolute shame on you Pritam!!! You should be banned from making music for ever!!!