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• Universal D

  
  A world weary Romanian cop tails some poor schmuck of a kid who's out smoking hash with his friends: should his bust the lump, or try to nail his supplier? But if he does it, the kid's life is in the crapper ... what to do, what to do? But this is only one problem in the… More
  A world weary Romanian cop tails some poor schmuck of a kid who's out smoking hash with his friends: should his bust the lump, or try to nail his supplier? But if he does it, the kid's life is in the crapper ... what to do, what to do? But this is only one problem in the cop's life. His wife is getting restless. Her husband doesn't seem to care about things, the important things, like about words and their meanings and how that intersects with our lives. You may decide, like the cop, to exclaim, "who thinks about this stuff?!? Who's got the time?!?" Or, you may give this slow simmer of a tale a chance to steep.

• Gordon A

  
  Definition of 'slow' (don't watch this if your sleepy), earnest, European arthouse indulgence. Certainly puts across the tedium of police work with langorous passages where we watch, wait and walk with the characters.

• El Hombre I

  
  An "inaction" cop film that's quiet, slow paced, and moody, Politist, adj. requires patience to allow the story to settle in and the characters to develop. There are many long takes during the almost real-time narrative of the film. The stake-outs come to mind. Heavy… More
  An "inaction" cop film that's quiet, slow paced, and moody, Politist, adj. requires patience to allow the story to settle in and the characters to develop. There are many long takes during the almost real-time narrative of the film. The stake-outs come to mind. Heavy with dialogue, it slowly turns into a complex story that kept my attention until the very end. The lead character Cristi is our protagonist serving as a police officer questioning what is right or wrong during a new regime which hangs on to old habits. The Romanian landscape is cold and industrial, so this is definitely not a film to promote tourism. The only other Romanian film I have seen recently is 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. I look forward to seeing more. <a href="http://s273.photobucket.com/albums/jj203/goji9000/?action=view&current=police_adjective.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj203/goji9000/police_adjective.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

• Carlos M

  
  This Romanian film is definitely not for everyone, considering all its peculiar directing style and sluggishly slow pace, but those willing to sit through it will find a thought-provoking, morally challenging story with a particularly outstanding final act.

• Walter M

  
  "Police, Adjective" starts with Cristi(Dragos Bucur) following Alex(Alexandru Sabadac), a high school student. Relax, it's not what you think. Well, at least, if it was what you thought, then there might have been something to recommend in this dull lingering headache… More
  "Police, Adjective" starts with Cristi(Dragos Bucur) following Alex(Alexandru Sabadac), a high school student. Relax, it's not what you think. Well, at least, if it was what you thought, then there might have been something to recommend in this dull lingering headache of a movie. In short, Cristi is a police detective investigating Alex for selling drugs after a fellow student squealed on him for smoking hashish. Except, Cristi does not feel right about sending the kid up the river for seven years. See, Cristi is newly married and on his honeymoon in Prague spotted people openly using drugs there which he feels will be legal in his native Romania soon enough and cannot do any more harm than drinking, smoking cigarettes or figuring out the lyrics of pop songs. So, without coming close to conveying the absurdity of the situation, the movie in its own listless way(Long takes and no accompanying humor. And there are only about five actors who can make reading from a dictionary exciting.) is about the introduction of new ideas versus a hardened bureaucratic state.(Wait a second? Wasn't Kafka from Prague?) And like any good worker, Cristi does his best to avoid his boss. At least, the mystery of what foot tennis looks like is resolved in the end.

• John B

  
  Although the story line is weak and poorly executed, the development of character is top rate. Viewers are in for a treat...albeit a slow moving one.

• Nicolas K

  
  Definitions are surely not subjective or are they? Unexpectedly interesting and engaging even though action is only a fraction of a film filled with long captions of waiting out, eating in, walking about...

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