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Agents
Mauritius / UK 2024
produced by
Farheen Vencapah, Nadeem Sham, Yash Modhave (executive) for Liv Worldwide
directed by Aditya Awandhe
starring Nadeem Sham, Naomi Willow, Vivien Monory, Vincent Pellegrin, Sanjay Gurbaxani, Rajeev Bharadwaj, Jeelanny Sham, Chien Ho Liao, Siddharth Pandey, Raja Mishra, Taylor White, Amanda Khan, Lanuakum Ao, Tenzin, Fadil Vencapah, Kapil Bisht
written by Nadeem Sham, Pranshuman Singh, co-written by Apoorva Verma, Kapil Bisht, Siddharth Pandey, Taylor White, action director: Aejaz Gulab
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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To celebrate the inclusion of island paradise Mauritius in the Silk
Road project, China sends a priceless national treasure, a very
special jade, to the island for exhibition. And even though Every
precaution is taken to get the jade from the airport safely to the
destination, the convoy carrying it is attacked and the jade, or rather
the bos that contains the jade is stolen - this last bit being of
importance as Raul (Vincent Pellegrin), the mastermind behind the theft,
learns upon opening the box that it's empty. In the meantime, agent Nad
(Nadeem Sham), who was responsible for the jade's safety, is tasked with
retrieving the jade, and to make sure that Chinese interests are
protected, he's teamed up with pretty but tough-as-nails Chinese agent
Yuan (Naomi Willow) - and at first, the two don't get along at all, as
their respective approaches to the investigation are just too different,
if equally efficient. But soon they just have to get along with one
another, as Raul and his minions, figuring since the jade hasn't been in
the box it has to be with them, turn the tables on our heroes and start to
chase them. What's worse, Nad and Yuan have to come to the conclusion
there has to be a mole in the police. otherwise Raul couldn't even have
known of the transport of the jade, and now they're targeted on all sides ...
In many ways, this film's a loveletter to 1980s action cinema,
as in everybody knows martial arts, the baddies' machine guns never hit
their marks while the heroes' handguns never miss, there's plenty of
violence, often slightly ridiculous chase scenes, and the laws of nature
don't always apply in the action scenes. So yeah, Agents might not
actually be food for thought - but it's also lots of fun: There's always
something happening on screen, the action is competently conceived, the
whole thing's dynamically filmed and makes perfect use of its very
pittoresque backdrops. So even if the film's a bit mindless, it's also
very good genre entertainment.
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