
Lobster Cop
Let’s be clear about one thing: there are no lobster cops in this movie. Nor is it the tale of a plucky crayfish who worked his way through the police academy to live out his childhood dreams in law enforcement. It’s the most flagrant case of false advertising since The Squid & the Whale and The Neverending Story combined. It is, however, a fun Chinese comedy/cop thriller that will appeal to a broad spectrum of audiences.
The film actually follows cops Yufei (Wang Qianyuan), Hua Jie (Yuan Shanshan), Neng (Liu Hua) and Chen (Zhou Yu) who are on the trail of a drug cartel. With only one month to find the mysterious General behind the operation, they go undercover as a family and open up a seafood resaturant across the road from the gang’s hideout. Of course, the fatherly Neng turns out to be a bit of a cooking savant, and the restaurant proves to be even more successful than their convoluted sting operation.