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slow

adjective (NOT EXCITING)
 
 
/sləʊ/ US  /sloʊ/

Definition

B2 describes a film, book, play, etc. that does not have much excitement and action: His films are so slow they send me to sleep.Tedious and uninspiringTypes of film, play, book etc.
(Definition of slow adjective (NOT EXCITING) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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