Review of Cobra (1986) by Stuart K — 05 Sep 2012

By the mid-1980's, Sylvester Stallone was one of the biggest stars at the box-office, he had 2 franchises on the go with Rocky and Rambo. After failing to get the lead in Beverly Hills Cop, he took the ideas he'd had for that, and used them for this adaptation of Paula Gosling's novel Fair Game, (which was made into a film in 1995), it's a very cheesy action film, by the numbers and it HAD to come from the 1980's.

:P It has Marion "the Cobra" Cobretti (Stallone), part of a police division known as the Zombie Squad, and he's always in trouble with his superiors for breaking police procedures and protocols, and causing unnecessary body counts.

:P So, he ends up being assigned to protect Ingrid Knudsen (Brigitte Nielsen), who was witness to murders being carried out by a violent group led by Night Slasher (Brian Thompson). Cobra and Ingrid end up being moved out of the city away from the gang, and they end up becoming romantically involved, but it's not long before the gang finds them.

It's not perfect by any means, and when it gets to the action, it finally gets into gear. Sly sleepwalks his way through this one, it was due to start another franchise but that never happened. Oh, it was produced by Cannon Films, what does that tell us?? :P.