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| Cobra
Year: 1986
Classification: Action
Country: USA
Directed:
- George P.Cosmatos
Actors/Actresses:
- Sylvester Stallone
- Brigitte Nielsen
- Andrew Robinson
- Branscombe Richmond
- Rene Santoni
- Brian Thompson
A movie for guys who like violent 80s movies
If you tried to be serious, Cobra would not be considered a good film. But if you want to talk about the movies you grew up with, the 80s cheese, the movies where the bad guy was just so evil you knew he was gonna get it but good?
That's where Rambo director George P. Cosmatos comes in and delivers Cobra. Stallone mumbles a lot and chews on a match like toothpick. He drives an incredible classic souped-up Mercedes (with nitrous boosts) and brandishes a submachine gun. When normal cops can't get it done, the Captain calls in the Cobra.
Do I need to talk about the story? Well, okay. Remember the punk from the opening of The Terminator--the guys who gets Arnie's fist put through him? He's the head of some evil cult here. You never find out what they're about, but they just like killing people sadistically with axes and knives, etc. They're just really evil, bad people.
Anyway, Stallone gets on the case, and dozens of corpses later he faces off with The Night Stalker, or Slasher, and...well, I'll let you find out.
This DVD actually has some decent extras. I'm impressed. Tailor-made for the dedicated violent 80s movie fan, including commentary from the director(!) AND a documentary.
You either know you're gonna love Cobra or hate it just by looking at the box cover art. So there you go.
The Cobra's bite is lethal!
This has gotta be Sylvestor Stallone's best action movie in my opinion although some people are gonna say First Blood I&II. I read somewhere that this movie was a flop but I don't know why, it has some of the best action sequences I have ever seen. Standout scenes where he is on the back of a truck and mowing down bad guy bikers with his sub machine gun with laser siding.Another scene is where he throws a handgrenade at a biker and him and his bike get blown up into the air.The car chase in this movie is yet another great action scene as well as the beginning where a man walks into a shopping centre and starts blowing the place apart with his shotgun as well as killing a man for nothing.<BR>The story is a model witnesses a crime and sees the face of the killer and becomes the target of a serial killer. But he isn't on his own. He has a whole army behind him and she is the target. This army likes to kill people,"kill the weak so the strong can survive" so the leader of the army says. A police specialist is assigned to protect the woman and he is nicknamed The Cobra, real name Marion Cobretti.<BR>I love it at the end of the movie when the leader of the gang says the Cobra has gotta arrest him but Sly says, "This is where the law stops, and I start."Classic line. The soundtrack to this film is great too, with "Feel the Heat" probably being the best song.Few stars are all that's available to rate this film but I would give it ten out of five if I could.
The Cure of Crime!
Forget Rambo, this bad mother is the ultimate immortal. Marion Cobretti prefers "Cobra" and anything he says, goes! Stallone is a tough cop who is on the search for a serial killer who also happens to be a part of the 'New Order' a cult that sacrifices innocent women. Not nice! Stallone protects a model from being a victim and he unleashes everything he's got. Machine guns and explosions! I can't get enough of it! The car chases are truly spectacular and Stallone is a wizard! Clearly, he is the second immortal to have embraced movie audiences all around the world and he will forever be remembered for this authentic piece of action cinema.
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