Agent Movie Review: Akhil Akkineni has fun; the audience – not so much – TOI Etimes
Story: The Wild One aka Rikki aka Ramakrishna (Akhil Akkineni) needs to be an agent and the RAW chief The Satan aka Mahadev (Mammootty) inexplicably provides him an opportunity. What occurs when an easy mission goes haywire?
Evaluation: Surender Reddy’s Agent is a tough movie to take a seat by means of. The best way the narrative unfolds, it looks as if the makers imagine they’re providing us a novel story (they’re actually not). Proper from the get-go, you’re thrown into chaos and whereas all of it appears attention-grabbing on paper, the execution feels half-hearted.
Rikki (Akhil Akkineni) is the not-so-usual boy-next-door who desires of being a RAW agent. Whereas his father (Murli Sharma) bemoans that he’s losing time, Rikki is attempting to get recruited by RAW and getting rejected. He has a not-so-bright concept to get the eye of RAW chief Mahadev (Mammootty) that sounds too foolish to grasp however apparently works as a result of that is industrial cinema. He additionally falls for a NASA aspirant (Sakshi Vaidya) who sashays out and in of the story every time it’s handy. Nevertheless, a syndicate head known as The God aka Dharma (Dino Morea) threatens to disrupt Satan’s peace, and so does The Wild One it appears to be like like.
Rikki is a free cannon who likes doing issues his method. Basically, he’s a Puri Jagannadh hero caught in a Surender Reddy movie. He’s unpredictable, bratty, loud, and calling him unhinged would typically be an understatement. The variety of occasions the phrase ‘wild’ is unnecessarily used could possibly be became a recreation to cross time. Regardless of all that, Rikki is rarely actually given the chance to unleash his craziness. On the most, he will get to do it trice. The remainder of it’s as predictable as they arrive minus the edge-of-the-seat moments that’s anticipated of any spy thriller.
The best way Rikki’s love monitor performs out, it stands proud like a sore thumb, so does Hiphop Tamizha’s music. Among the songs are so oddly positioned, you do not know if they provide respite or simply plain annoy. The BGM is an assault on the ears, so is the accent sure key characters randomly slip into. The largest disadvantage of the movie lies within the emotional sequences. Whereas all of them sound so good on paper, none of them translate effectively on-screen since you’re by no means given sufficient time to soak all of it in. Main reveals involving Rikki, Satan and God’s characters play out on-screen with such nonchalance, you by no means totally perceive the load of all of it. The foolish climax and shoddy VFX simply add to the woes.
And that’s a disgrace as a result of Akhil has the time of his life enjoying Rikki and it exhibits on-screen. Be it when he’s flexing his six-pack or grinning maniacally or dancing his method by means of an motion sequence (you learn that proper) – he appears to take pleasure in all of it. Even when he goes overboard at occasions, he essays the character pretty effectively. Sakshi appears to be like lovely and acts effective, it’s a disgrace she doesn’t get a lot to do. Mammootty breezes by means of his function and whereas Dino Morea tries his greatest to lend his cookie-cutter antagonist some gravitas. There are quite a few different characters that pepper the movie, just like the one performed by Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, that do not actually add to something.
Agent is a spy thriller that commits the blasphemy of being boring. And Akhil’s ‘wild’ act would possibly save the nation nevertheless it’s not sufficient to save lots of the movie.
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