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Release Date : April 28, 2023

123telugu.com Rating : 2.5/5

Starring: Akhil Akkineni , Mammootty, Dino Morea, Sakshi Vaidya

Director: Surender Reddy

Producer: Ramabrahmam Sunkara

Music Director: Hip Hop Thamizha

Cinematography: Rasool Ellore

Editor: Naveen Nooli

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Akhil Akkineni’s much-awaited spy thriller, Agent, laced with action and romance, generated massive buzz with its promotional material. Amid high expectations, the film hit screens today. Check out our review to know how it is.

P. Ramakrishna aka Rickey (Akhil Akkineni) is a hyperactive youngster who wishes to be a spy but is rejected three times by the RAW. So, he hacks RAW chief Mahadev aka The Devil’s (Mammootty) system to get noticed by him. Finally, The Devil secretly appoints him on a mission to find the action plan of God (Dino Morea) who planned something big to destroy India. Who is God? What is his relationship with The Devil? Did Vicky find him and stop his mission? What happened next? The movie has all the answers.

Plus Points:

Akhil Akkineni gets a wonderful role to perform. His character arc is designed well by director Surender Reddy, which is completely different from Akhil’s previous roles. His performance, especially in action sequences, is so good to watch on the big screen. It is a feast for fans to see Akhil in this kind of different role. Surender Reddy also unleashes the terrific dancer in Akhil. Akhil’s efforts and transformation for the role are praiseworthy.

Malayalam Megastar Mammootty gets a decent role. His character creates confusion among the audience to decide whether he is a RAW chief or a bad man. The star hero also dubs for his role which is nice.

Sakshi Vaidya looks so adorable and her scenes with Akhil are very less, but they are good enough to watch.

The first half is a feast for fans of Akhil, as his character is unpredictable. He is crazy and his actions are enjoyable throughout the first half. His interaction with Minister Jayadev (Sampath Raj), and the fight sequence before the interval are whistle worthy.

Minus Points:

The story is a bit predictable. Vakkantam Vamsi should have taken proper care in writing the story at least in an engaging manner in the second hour. The screenplay, which is nice in the first half, runs on a slow note in the second half. This will make one feel boredom.

The second half is a big letdown for the movie as it is not much engaging as the first half. The climax portion looks so silly. The emotional part didn’t work well in the second half.

The villain character played by Dino Morea is good but the director should have shown a better reason to say why he is against India.

Also, many characters have nothing to do with the movie. For instance, there is no need of Varalaxmi Sarathkumar in this film. Murali Sharma, Anish Kuruvilla, and others are just limited to only a few scenes.

The action sequences are designed well but the VFX is so poor and to be honest, many mid-budget films have had better VFX. Also, the songs’ placement is bad. They become a hurdle.

Technical Aspects:

Director Surender Reddy succeeded in utilising the full potential of Akhil. He showcased him so well and unleashed the mass angle of the actor. However, he failed to narrate the story well in the second half, which needs to be quite engaging after a good first half.

The cinematography by Rasool Ellore is okay and so is the music by Hiphop Tamizha. The editing could have been better and Naveen Nooli should have trimmed off many unnecessary scenes in the second half. The production values are good.

On the whole, Akhil starrer Agent is a mediocre spy thriller. Akhil’s performance and a few action sequences are a boon to the film. The poor screenplay in the second half, some over-the-top scenes, and a silly climax portion make one feel boredom. If you are an action-movie lover, you can give this film a watch this weekend.

123telugu.com Rating: 2.5/5

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Ramakrishna alias Ricky (Akhil Akkineni), much like Karthi in last year’s Sardar has zero qualms about his family treating him like a slacker up to no good. He never provides an explanation, content with his family living in oblivion about his true aspirations.

With a cheeky grin slapped across his face, he roams around town gathering intel on suspicious people in the hopes of being noticed by the Research & Analysis Wing (RAW), where he aspires to work someday. He even audaciously attends government job exams writing on the margins of his OMR sheets that he wants a job at the RAW while declaring as a matter of fact that he is not interested in a desk job. After getting rejected thrice, he takes matters into his own hands to get his dream job one more time.

While Telugu cinema is always game for fusing real-life details of a star into the fictitious character he is essaying, the unintentional parallels displayed in Akhil seeking a coveted break in the industry after a string of unsuccessful films, against Ricky’s sincere but less-than-legal attempts to get into this country’s elite intelligence force is not lost on me. It is a little hard to explain the rest of Agent’s plot coherently, considering it flits from one point to another like a tiresome, fidgety teenager.

There is a mismatch so severe in the film’s tone, Agent feels like the body of a run-of-the-mill Hollywood spy actioner is possessed with the spirit of a politically incorrect Telugu masala film, the kind Surender Reddy and his writer Vakkantham Vamsi thrive in. Look at Ricky’s relationship with Vidya (Sakshi Vaidya), for instance. There is love at first sight on the part of the former, followed by what sounds like situations in theory, only to have that inconsequential subplot (which is only rivalled by three out-of-place romantic numbers) get hijacked by our hero winning the heroine’s heart by threatening her harasser.

Much like John Abraham’s Jim in Pathaan, you get a villain with a grudge in Agent (Dino Morea), a man who considers terrorism based on religious fundamentalism as passe. Ideologues are mere pawns for The God (Dino Morea) and his organisation The Syndicate, a secret, Illuminati-like oligopoly that control everything from government to media and beyond.

Contrast this with the way ‘Syndicate’ is used in Pushpa: The Rise . Any newfangled term in a film, irrespective of its specific connotations, is only as effective as the rest of its story. The writing of Agent, especially in its second half focuses on the unholy trinity of its three central characters — God, Devil and Ricky.

It is interesting to note that the film’s stern do-gooder is called The Devil, while the film’s antagonist is ‘The God’ here. We also get the backstory of Ricky and The Devil (Mammootty), which is pitted against the backstory of The Devil and The God.

Ricky keeps shuttling from The Devil and The God, to confusing effect. While there is some noteworthy commentary on the difference between a good student/ agent versus a bad one, all these nuanced, interpersonal dynamics never get woven into the story as they prominently should.

We instead get a film with buzzwords like floating banks and sleeper cells, like empty shells on a scorched battlefield. Cinematographer Rasool Ellore lights the film with style and aplomb, trying to make up for the film’s lacklustre story with the brightest of explosions.

Just as Agent manages to end on a sincere note on how heroes never die, on par with the film’s last act, we are also handed a post-credits sequence where the makers practically mock the film’s viewer by going, “You really thought we would kill the hero, did you? You fool.” Akhil hams his way through Agent, with the audience never quite being able to believe the ‘elevations’ he receives throughout the film.

Mammootty, while handsome and formidable, is saddled with a pithy, place card role. The film continues its streak of jarring, half-hearted executions with the way it recreates New Delhi’s RAW office in Hyderabad’s Raidurgam, which would have at least worked if they did not display a bird’s eye B-roll of the same Raidurg area when they wanted to establish the story in Hyderabad. There is a throwaway line comparing logic with magic somewhere in Agent, and the film falls short on both counts, leaving its viewer with a tedious and unmemorable experience.

MOVIE: AGENT

CAST: Akhil Akkineni, Mammootty, Dino Morea, Sakshi Vaidya DIRECTOR: Surender Reddy

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