Sylvester Stallone

Brigitte Nielsen

Reni Santoni

Brian Thompson

Lee Garlington

Art LaFleur

Andrew Robinson

Marco Rodríguez

Val Avery

Nina Axelrod

David Rasche

John Herzfeld

Ross St. Phillip

John Hauk

Nick Angotti

Brad Bovee

Kevin Breslin

Roger Aaron Brown

John Cahill

Louise Caire Clark

Christine Craft

Gregory Cruz

Deborah Dalton

Scott Dockstader

Laura Drake

Karen Kondazian

Dorothy Meyer

Clare Torao

Julie Hampton

Helen Kelly

Ron Jeremy

Bert Williams

Joe Bonny

Duncan Henderson

Eric Jewett

Janet G. Knutsen

Gayle Simon

Kurt V. Hulett

Frederick Lietzman

Louis S. Fleming

Max E. Brehme

Jane Stewart

Carl Boles

Donald Whipple Jr.

Richard L. Jordan

Keith Pallant

Jeff Stanman

Eddie Taylor

Roger Gebhard

Richard A. Mention

Jack Glenn

Howard Hagadorn

Danny Boldroff

Steve Boldroff

John London

Larry Hezzelwood

Christopher Ishii

Robin Borman-Wizan

Murray Lantz

Michael J. Long

Linda Henrikson

Barbara Harris

Henry Alford

Cynthia Rothkopf

Sally Stiner

Avram D. Gold

Michelle Pleis

James M. McCann

Evelyn Dutton

Margie O'Malley

Teri E. Dorman

Michele Sharp

Jay Wilkinson

Joseph A. Ippolito

Michael Evje

Stanley B. Gill

Fredrick Talmage

Seanna McPherson

Paul Cichocki

Gregory M. Gerlich

Martin November

Robert Raring

Donah Bassett

Robin Garb

Verla Loomis Randall

James E. Lorimer

Lynn C. Marchionno

Cynthia Wise

Bruce Carter

Bill Wells

Richard Liebegott

Tony Maffatone

George P. Cosmatos

Paula Gosling

Yoram Globus

Menahem Golan

James D. Brubaker

Sylvester Levay

Ric Waite

James R. Symons

Don Zimmerman

Tony Munafo

Joy Todd

Tom Bronson

Bill Kenney

Adrian Gorton

William Ladd Skinner

Robert Gould

David F. Klassen

Michael J. Smith

Phil Cory

George Brand

Ed Arter

Michael Brum

Joe Finnegan

Lola Kemp

Barbara Lorenz

Stephen Abrums

Leonard Engelman

William D. Derham

Douglas Forsmith

Cate Bangs

Fred J. Brown

Rick Kline

Gregg Landaker

Michael Minkler

Terry Leonard

Rick Neff

Michael St. Hilaire

Dave Friedman

Nick McLean

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Gimly

It's hard to find a single aspect of _Cobra _that hadn't been done before, or hasn't been done better since. It's hoakey and way too self-serious given the content. But if you're hankering for some of that Sly action of yore, you shouldn't go past _Cobra_... Unless its for any number of the nearly-identical-but-better movies he did in the same era.

_Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._

This is where the law stops and I start, sucker!

Cobra is directed by George P. Cosmatos and written by  Paula Gosling (novel Fair game) and Sylvester Stallone. It stars Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Brian Thompson, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson, John Herzfeld and Lee Garlington. Music is by Sylvester Levay and cinematography by Ric Waite. 

A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far-reaching plans.

Cobra is a tantalising peek as to just what Stallone's "Beverley Hills Cop" would have looked like. He had turned in a gritty and ballsy action screenplay but the studio balked at the cost and thus went with the comedic Eddie Murphy route (which worked great as it happens).

This truncated 1hour and 20 minute Cobra just hints at what a dark edgy action film we should have had before the scissor suits at the studio got panicky and cut out a third of the pic.

What we have left though is still good fun, Stallone is on cocky and cool bad dude mode, the villain is OTT (Brian Thompson actually looks like Arnie in some facial shots), Nielsen is in her natural bodily state... while the action we do get is high octane. It's hardly a stinker, if a little frustrating with a "what might have been hanging" over it, and of course the editing is shoddy. 6.5/10

Short and sweet.

<em>'Cobra'</em> is a straightforward, by the numbers action film with Sylvester Stallone. It doesn't really do much to drift you away from the obvious, but the action itself is entertaining and some of the deaths are quite cool to watch. The songs are passable, if not entirely well chosen.

Stallone, as you'd likely expect, is the only performer worth noting. He does his usual stuff and it comes across strong enough, one thing I didn't like about his character is his speech - the dialogue is kinda poor, they attempt to make Cobra a smooth, cool badass but it doesn't really work in that way.

I'd almost considering this a disappointing film, but the watchable action and Stallone himself carry this over the line for a good film in my opinion.

My mother loved this film back when I was a kid, actually took me to see it three times in the theater... when I was about 6.

As a kid, it was another fun action movie with a lot of fun violence and just scary enough where I could boast about it at school. And, as an adult it's a fun action movie with a lot of fun violence and a plot that doesn't completely make sense, but who cares because the point is fun.

It's one of those movies that you don't expect a lot going into and you are rewarded with, well, mindless popcorn munching action that is delivered in a way that only the 80s could do.

So what's not to like?

CinemaSerf

Well everyone from John Wayne to Clint Eastwood has had a go at the rogue cop does good drama, so now it’s the turn of the wooden as a cheeseboard Sylvester Stallone with “Cobretti”. With a stylish leather jacket, a confident swagger and a toothpick constantly in his mouth, this officer has to turn his mind to a seemingly unconnected series of vicious attacks. Indeed, the only things that might connect the crimes are that the victims all seems to be insignificant people of no particular importance to anyone. We are not so much in the dark as him, though, as we know a little more about what’s going on and why it’s very important that he manages to keep “Ingrid” (an almost equally static Brigitte Nielsen) safe from a menacing individual who is determined to stop her testifying against his cultish paymasters. This film is entirely designed as a vehicle for Stallone with very little originality to it, but there is some action now and again and the nemesis reminded me of Conan-Doyle’s slightly maniacal “Hoxton Creeper” as he does his job well enough. Car chases, shoot-outs, black eyes and bruises galore but we’ve seen it all before - only without so many cheesy power ballads. It’s dated, and frankly a bit dull. Sorry.

Cobra( 1986)

Crime is a disease. Meet the cure.

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Written by Gimly on Thu May 10 2018

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