Stallone is Stallone, not as angry as Rambo but not as sweet as Rocky, placing him in the middle of his two note acting scale. Brigitte Nielsen has climbed up from the abyss of her performance in Red Sonja , and now approaches the thespic abilities of Mamie Van Doren. Reni Santoni is acceptable as the obligatory partner, whose main function is to listen to Stallone's one liners. The villains, cast for their resemblence to known actors, it seems, are Hollywood competent. The only good thing to be said for the music is that Stallone didn't let his brother write a song for the film, this time.
Music is used like a hammer in Cobra .
I sort of hoped that, after disposing of all the other bad guys, Cobra would shoot Sylvester Levay, the composer. Cobra has fairly good action sequences, it must be admitted. They aren't exceptional, and they aren't very well filmed, but the do have some force to them. Cosmatos and Zimmerman show too much fondness for Friday the 13th style cutting, which provides the film with a few shocks but no suspense. Most of the violence looks too utterly unreal to truly excite the spectator.