It was the intermission of the Bollywood James Bond and I had a sense of all wasn't well.
A chap whose been kind enough to be an everyfilm follower told me he thought it lacked zest. He enjoys songs and dance and was disappointed the only one featured to that point was a repurposing of Boney M's Rasputin.
Meanwhile, on my way back from buying a packet of M & M's, I heard another chap telling a pal that it was "really boring.''
Actually, I was quite taken with the first half of Sriram Raghaven's Agent Vinod.
Saif Ali Khan, in my view, made a smooth spy, and the action as thick and fast as the different exotic locations.
Then came the second half which was, frankly, laughable.
Agent Vinod has been banned in Pakistan because its plot lines up Indian spies against Pakistani terrorist group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, which, in real life, was blamed for the 2008 assault on Mumbai which cost 160 lives.
There may also be offence at the antics of glamorous Mumbai-born Kareena Kapoor who plays a Pakistani spy who is anything but a demure Muslim woman.
Khan plays the seemingly indestructible spy who pursues terrorists around the world and, in doing so, has a catalogue of aliases, a neat line in disguise and an eye for the ladies (sound familiar).
I nearly forgot his near superhuman strength which means he can polish off half a dozen thugs at the same time and an ability, which even James Bond would admire, to survive scrapes.
The problem with Agent Vinod is that there is too much of everything. There are so many locations that it all becomes confusing and there are so many scrapes it becomes unbelievable.
This overload results in dullness proving that there really can be too much of a good thing.
Laughs: none
Jumps: one
Vomit: none
Nudity: none
Overall rating: 5/10