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Rating: 4 stars

All movies seen on 10/01/2011

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Cobra (1986)

Directed by George P. Cosmatos

Action

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Overview

A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.

Rated R | Length 87 minutes

Actors

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 Nono | Julie Hampton | Helen Kelly | Ron Jeremy | Bert Williams | Joe Bonny

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

I had a case of I Need a Big Dumb Action Movie and COBRA was the cure. Among Stallone’s prolific Big Dumb Actioners, this one is near the top and it hits all the right notes, with a rebel cop, an army of generic killers, a witty sidekick, over the top violence and cheesy romance.

My favorite sequence is still the opening at the grocery store, when, rather than call in a hostage negotiator, they send in The Cobra, and well that’s that when he blows the guy the damn hell away. There’s also a brief flash of an almost grindhouse feel in the opening that I wish the director had stayed with.

I also loved that Cobra had his own data center at his apartment that had fingerprint analysis and full color mugshots. In 1986.

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