Police, Adjective

Set in present day Romania this movie focuses around Cristi, a police detective, investigating youths suspected of smoking cannabis and the moral dilemma he faces over his conscience to convict them of something that appears very trivial to him. The premise sounds fine but the movie was tragic. It was just a self-indulgent bore fest. I could see what the director was trying to do as well as depict the dreariness of everyday Romanian life but I just couldn’t concentrate on this. Endless walking scenes, shots of houses where nothing happens for ten minutes, it was beyond frustrating. I found myself focusing more upon the small hole in the upholstery on the seat in front and trying to find a way to fix it rather than the movie itself. Shocking! 1/5 stars purely for two entertaining scenes involving a rather annoying song and what seemed a 30 minute sketch looking up words in a dictionary.