Police, Adjective is about Cristi, a cop, whose conscience interferes with his police work. He does not want to arrest a pot-smoking teenager he has been tailing - who may or may not be dealing - because the drug laws will soon be revised. Good golly, Miss Molly, if every cop's conscience dictated his/her actions - not to follow police procedures and the oath he/she took - there would be chaos in every town and city throughout the world. Despite that cops all over the world take an oath to uphold the law, writer/director Corneliu Porumboiu thought he had a story to tell anyway.How does Porumboiu tell his story? With too many unnecessary, long, drawn out scenes. It's as if Porumboiu did not consider what he was focusing upon in his scenes to help him determine what the length of those scenes should be. And, so, what could have been told in two minutes with a clock on the wall, is told in six minutes. We get it, Mr. Porumboiu! Really, we do!The final scene in the movie is between Cristi and his superior, Anghelache, who puts a dictionary in Cristi's hands and makes him look up several definitions. The scene goes on way too long. It's like looking into a grade school classroom, except the student is a cop. Ouch! Anghelache's point is lost because he spends too much time making Cristi look up too many words. Words one would have though a grown man would know the definitions of already. On top of that, a cop has to be reminded that the law is the law? The only thing I appreciated about Police, Adjective is the simplistic camera shots. If Porumboiu had shown us that the kid's mother was an invalid and living in squalor - and why the cop all of a sudden has a conscience - then I would say conscience vs. police oath might be a good story. But he didn't, and so his story and his too many lengthy scenes makes Police, Adjective a wee bit too tedious and stale to enjoy, or believe.

As I can see, quite a few viewers made trite and deathly boring remarks about the worst movie ever( using that moronic phrase requires an IQ of a cucumber), or this is not entertainment. Well, duh...98% of American movies are just that, an attempt to amuse, entertain, induce a chuckle or such. It is mind boggling that all these idle people, go out of their way and seek this obscure Romanian art flick and than blame it for not being exciting enough. If thrill is all you want and expect from a movie it isn't that hard to find it. Most of the films are made for video game crowd anyway. So, I beg you people, stop watching films you don't like or understand, and afterwords torture us with dumb and badly written reviews.

The Romanian film wonder goes on and what's wonderous about it is that it's not afraid of life, like most movies around the world are. Since the beginning of the 1900s, there's an agreement about that life being absolutely boring. Lucky thing you can cut the film.But here, we follow the young policeman on a routine mission, trying to investigate a supposed drug crime. The camera goes on for ten minutes, nothing happens or more likely...everything happens. What's morality about. Following the law or following your conscience? Or is it the same thing? Or should it be? An action drama there the action takes place inside the characters and the viewers. And that's absolutely fair enough.

This movie was so painfully slow, it was almost unwatchable. And I like slow movies! I know all of you who have written that this movie has such a deep meaning will hate me for saying that this movies subject matter is extremely weak. This cop is tailing a kid for days just cause he is smoking a few joints? It doesn't make sense. Why would his boss allow him to drag it out this long. Make the arrest or don't and move on to bigger and better things. For all of you who say this is how cops jobs actually are, you are dead wrong. This type of offense would be taken care of in an hour. He's a cop. Do your job or quit and get a other one. Too add, the lack of character development gives me no reason to care about anyone in this film. And isn't that supposed to be the point of the while movie? Caring and understanding what the character feels? Well I don't feel anything from this film.