Cobra (1986)

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City cop is on the trail of a serial killer. Loaded with action and violence. Stallone fans will love this Rambo-like movie with Stallone on the chase instead of the run (imdb)

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Directed By: George P. Cosmatos

Written By: Sylvester Stallone, Paula Gosling

Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Val Avery, Brian Thompson, David Rasche, Art LaFleur, Lee Garlington, Brigitte Nielsen, John Herzfeld, Andrew Robinson, Marco Rodríguez, Reni Santoni, Ross St. Phillip

Genres: Crime, Action

Country: USA

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Cobra belongs to 21 collections

1. Psychotronic Film and Video Guides (collaborative: moderated by Gregzilla - 40 stars)

2. Based on a Book (collaborative: moderated by iconogassed - 21 stars)

3. Films available in HD (collaborative: moderated by kubricksucks - 13 stars)

4. The Gentlemen's Guide To Midnight Cinema Podcast (collaborative: moderated by Coheed - 9 stars)

5. Car chase (collaborative: moderated by iconogassed - 8 stars)

6. Synth soundtrack or score (collaborative: moderated by Ag0stoMesmer - 8 stars)

7. How Did This Get Made? (collaborative: moderated by theficionado - 8 stars)

8. Based On Novel (collaborative: moderated by tathiel - 7 stars)

9. Books by Women that were made into Movies (collaborative: moderated by Dunstan-xxx - 5 stars)

10. Top 3000 movies with the most votes on IMDb (public: fanfic - 5 stars)

11. Failed Franchise Attempts (collaborative: moderated by Hailey - 4 stars)

12. The Cannon Group (collaborative: moderated by ShogunRua - 4 stars)

13. L.A. sleaze (collaborative: moderated by mattburgess - 3 stars)

14. Best worst films (public: Hadleyreis - 3 stars)

15. Snakes (collaborative - 2 stars)

16. Savage street gangs, bikers & punks (collaborative: moderated by mattburgess - 2 stars)

17. 80's buff guy movies (collaborative: moderated by Luna6ix)

18. Cinema Sewer (collaborative: moderated by mattburgess)

19. Eric's Bad Movies (public: BeeDub)

20. Forrest Watch List (public: ForrestQ)

21. DoObejrzenia (public: peeroog)

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TCI | Percentile | Date Rated | # Stars (Reviews)

Stars	User	Rating
8	Barthalen	39 _19th
What do you call a guy that wears sunglasses indoors, drives a vintage car, listens to shitty eighties music, feels the need to comment on everyone's eating habits and cuts his pizza with a pair of scissors? A hipster douchebag. What do you call the same guy in 1986? Cobra.
5	INDYATMN	77 _48th
This isn't "good" per se, but it's quick, distinct (Cosmatos shoots the criminals like they're murderers in a slasher film - & they kind of are) & there's funny moments of unintentional camp. It's one thing for Sly to try to inject some - cough!- "social commentary" into this violent cartoon by way of his absurd caricatures of soft-on-crime liberals, but when the criminals are all batsh-t insane psychos who spend their days clanking their axes together in unison you have to laugh.
4	terrymac	40 _10th
Absolute dross, but not the sort of dross that'll have you switching off partway through. Strangely enjoyable dross, then. It's ludicrous, and pretty much nothing makes sense. Stallone's character is a kitchen sink of 70s/80s action tropes, and not one person here is a believable human being. It's pleasantly violent, and over pretty quickly, so you too might be able to sit through this.
4	BillyShears	60 _34th
Pepsi present’s Cobra Stallone tone deaf on what’s cool and badass which obviously rules. Way too many people wearing cabbie hats in this like the costume designer stumbled on a box of them. The only thing that factory produces at the end of the movie is widows.
4	TonythePony	38 _6th
There's something quite charming about a gang of axe-wielding maniacs who care about choreography. ching ching
3	lrampartl	61 _48th
You ever notice how they try to get action heroes over with a gimmick? Cobra has like eight. The super gun, sunglasses, old timey car, matchstick in the mouth, gloves, etc. Still, a decent little tough cop movie. Good 80's cheese junk.
3	Ytadel	3 _28th
There's a remarkable lack of intellectual and artistic ambition present in this right-wing fascism fantasy / 80s action paint-by-numbers. That said, it's difficult to truly hate an 80s action flick, isn't it?
3	PeaceAnarchy	34 _2nd
Did you think Dirty Harry was a liberal pussy who was too sympathetic? Were you also annoyed that the acting in that film was too good? Well, then Cobra should be right up your alley. Even ignoring the ridiculous, and overt, appeals to fascism, this is just a really badly made film with a few exciting action scenes to alleviate the tedium of Stallone's mumbling.
3	saucyjack	70 _49th
Entertainingly cheesy. Try not to laugh when you see businessmen clanging battle axes above their heads.
3	Luna6ix	73 _44th
"Cobra" is a every tough guy action movie distilled down to one mess of tropes and ridiculous awesomeness. If I was twelve in 1986, this would have probably been the coolest thing I ever saw, but action movies have changed a lot over the years and "Cobra" held up about as well a Brigitte Nielsen's looks, not that she was ever much of a looker.
3	DougCL	100 _98th
the most perfect example of the shit-stupid 80s action wankfest. and its an absolute pleasure to watch every single time.
3	LookJabba...	6 _41st
Cobra is very much something of a guilty pleasure. The plot is wafer thin and there's nothing particularly memorable. But growing up I thought this was such a cool Sylvester Stallone film. It's by no means one of his best films, but it's one of his coolest. He's called Marion Cobretti and convincingly makes it sound cool. Enough said. The action scenes are good, but the performances and script are woeful. Stallone cutting pizza with scissors steals the show though. Stupidly cool and very 80's.
2	KasperL	75 _77th
Holds up well. Stallone has some cool oneliners in what is essentially part slasher with Nielsen as the final girl and the always creepy Thompson as the killer. The whole thing oozes 80s-ness and is pretty enjoyable.
2	flyingwhales	90 _94th
Marian Cobretti is going to shoot the hell out of anyone who doesn't like this movie. That's the kind of cop he is.
2	Cinema_Asia	45 _7th
This easily falls into the category of "so bad it's good" because of the stoic seriousness it takes itself but leaves lots of room for inadvertent camp appeal. It also embodies 80's violent cheese quite well with Stallone trying to be the ice cold apathetic cop. Plus he walks around with a totally impractical looking sidearm while he mows down raving punk/biker thugs. The best part is Stallone cutting pizza with scissors though.
2	glumpy_99	59 _16th
Watchable but ultimately disposable assembly-line 80s action trash, highlighted by two exciting car chases. Cosmatos' leaden, journeyman direction means many of the action scenes feel oddly deflated, despite the copious (and grotesque) blood-shed. Stallone gives more or less what you would expect from him (lacking the sense of self-kidding that Arnie would bring to this sort of thing) and the film suffers for a lack of an interesting bad guy, or even discernable motivations for the villainy.
2	ericambler	38 _8th
For Stallone completists only. Sly cuts a piece of pizza with a pair of scissors.
2	Paxton	69 _56th
He cuts his pizza with a scissors. Your argument is invalid.
2	Pumpernikiel	57 _23rd
Kinda stupid movie, but I had fun watching it, and that's what is most important.
2	Yiannos	43 _10th
Like most violent urban cop thrillers after Dirty Harry, Cobra is pro-tyranny propaganda, but it's a little more blatant and extreme in how it goes about delivering that message. The hellish vision of the world in Cobra is dangerous to the point of absurdity: the only solution is to let rogue cops mow down criminals with weird looking guns. It pretends to deal with the problem of social violence, within an action film context, but it simply exploits real fears about it.
1	eveelun	50 _11th
Laughable example of 80s vigilante justice. Cobra doesn't play by the rules, he can't afford to when there's a gang of serial killers out there working together! Pretty absurd, but it's no match for Death Wish 3 in terms of conservative paranoia.
1	doctor7	11 _6th
Pretty much contains all the reasons why Stallone's career tanked. It's a garbage movie full of terrible dialog, awful characters on both sides of the law and shoddy film making. Avoid unless you're a Stallone fan who loves his bad movies.
1	TheDenizen	30 _11th
Not as wretched as its reputation, but man, it's not good.
1	jcdracula	0 _17th
When Cosmatos teamed up with Stallone, magic happened. This is completely insane garbage, fueled by right wing paranoia and filled with loads of unintentional comedy and surrealism.
1	joseywales	60 _34th
Better (in a corny 80's action way) than I remembered. An easy fun watch for fans of the genre, just don't take it too seriously and you'll have a good time. Also am I the only one who thinks the villain looks like a jacked-up Sean William Scott?
1	bowfinger	20 _14th
Written by Stallone? The bitch can barely act!
1	caffe	57 _45th
I truly enjoy this stupid, stupid piece of shit. I love how incredibly, wondrously, unironically stupid it is.
1	hehheh	3 _62nd
This is so much better than Commando.
1	Der_Barney	70 _15th
So crappy it's actually kinda cool.
1	Neonman	64 _22nd
Standard storyline that should be eased through with some cheesy '80s moments to help you get by. The action sequences are decent, but as impressive as the stunt-work is, it just feels like they are performing the stunts for the sake of how impressive they are without really flowing into the narrative of the action scenes. This may sound like a nit-pick, but there's not a whole lot else to analyse here; it's just a typical '80s action film.
1	Castroph	4 _28th
The montage is the best part of the movie, other than that you have Stallone walking around in boots cutting pizzas with scissors and drinking beer in a supermarket with a deranged psycho.
1	begoniabol	15 _18th
It's basically an 80's music video of an hour long till the end fight starring Sylvi hoisted into a pair of tight jeans and shirt and a woman wearing too tight clothes as well. The end fight is boring, stupid, cheesy and sweaty
1	wetwillies	80 _37th
Viewed May 15, 2021. Will be thinking about the pizza scissors forever.
1	overrated	22 _13th
When right-wing action heroes don't have witty one-liners when dispatching bad guys they come across as assholes. Evidenced by the rapid cut after the death of the villain here, as if even the filmmakers themselves realized it was a bit much.
1	calinki	65 _24th
bonus rating for "feel the heat" and the sunglasses
1	hazelhawks	27 _6th
Wow! Totally forgot about John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band. Cool photography and fetishistic design aside, this Stallone vanity project is basically a really dumb attempt to turn First Blood inside out. Why?! But great to see Brian Thompson (alien bounty hunter from x-files) as a wacky maniac. James Woods' Cop movie may have been making fun of Cobra... but I'm not for sure.
1	Pfightmaster	43 _22nd
I love this stupid piece of garbage. The action hits hard, Sly is way over the top in the title roll and everything is possible in the ways of vigilante justice, as long as it's bad guys who die a horrible, horrible death.
1	Mr Vincent	35 _13th
Incredibly stupid and awesome at the same time.

Average Percentile 27.41% from 1479 Ratings