Cobra
Tags: comedy, mystery, neo noir, murder, violence, cult, humor, action

Plot synopsis:
"Crime is a disease. Meet the cure." Lt. Marion Cobretti, nicknamed Cobra, is a sunglass wearing, tooth pick chewing cop who is all about getting the criminal and breaking
the rules. He has the entire department on his back all the time about his very violent
and forceful way of getting the bad guys, normally making the punks end up in a body
bag loaded with lead issued from his trusty pearl handled Colt .45.But Cobra is set a real challenge when a killer cult is spreading
rapidly in the city. The cult kills innocent people, seeming to pick random victims and
slaying them with jagged knifes and getting off on the hunted's fear. But they make a huge mistake when they kill a woman at an bus stop and a young model sees them. She
doesn't exactly know that they've killed someone, but is extremely scared when one
of the killers, a muscle bound and rather deformed looking man, gives her a spine chilling
look. Soon the killers are after her! And they kill her photographer, a security guard
and very nearly make her meet their sadistic style of murder. Cobra is soon on the
seen, with his partner the junk food loving, Sergeant Gonzales. They ask the young model,
whose name turns out to be Ingrid, if she saw the killers. She says she only saw some
people at the bus stop acting very odd and a man who scared her badly.But Cobra's progress into solving the case is halted by the pencil pushing, fat headed Detective Monte,
who is always on his case about too much force. He tells Cobra that he's on the Zombie
squad for a reason, he's too violent and doesn't please the press.Much too Monte's disgust, the Chief and Captain Sears decided to let Cobra use his street wise talk to fight the
killer. Cobra goes through the entire population of the nocturnal seediness of
downtown, where all the prostitutes, pimps, bar flies and cons of the city hang out. But
he doesn't find any kind of help from these people, they have no idea who the killers are.Cobra soon connects a supermarket killing, that involved a physco who claimed that he
was part of "the new order" who would wipe out the weak and make the strong survive,
to the mass murders ripping at the soft under belly of the capital. But Detective Monte's
smart mouth antics and somewhat spineless Captain Sears try to stop him from using
agressive force, not caring that Ingrid almost got killed by one of the cult followers, Night
Slasher and that numerous other people where slayed in the hospital at night. The Captain
agrees to let Cobra take Ingrid to the countryside with Gonzales and a female cop
named Nancy Stalk. Little does he know that the heat is going to be turned up instead
of cooled off when they leave the city. Nancy is infact a cult member and leading the
Night Slasher and his cronies right to where Cobra is taking Ingrid.While in a motel that's off the beaten track, Ingrid and Cobra realise their attraction to one another. The
romantic mood is short lived however, and the cult is back on Cobra's trail. They burn
down the motel and almost kill Gonzales. Cobra and Ingrid ride off in a pick up truck
and almost meet their end by crashing into a burning car that's blocking the road. Cobra
still manages to take some punks down though, with a very nice piece of weaponary called the laser mount submachine gun.They end up in a chemical factory and finally Night Slasher and Cobra come face to face. In a very phycotic speech Night Slasher
says that Cobra's law is weak and that their cult will always survive. This sends Cobra off
the deep end and Slasher onto a huge metal hook, that rips through his back and sends
him off into a molten vat of metal. Nancy however is still alive and tries to kill Cobra,
but she is also killed.After all the bloodshed, Cobra and Ingrid emerged slightly bruised
and dirty, from the factory. The Captain congratulates Cobra, but Monte is too proud to
actually admit that Cobra one the fight. He picks up his bit about too much excessive
force, but earns himself a good punch from Cobra, sending him to the ground stone cold.
Ingrid and Cobra ride off on a motorbike into the sunset to Kiss singing "Can you get
enough me baby, I can't get enough of you." In true Stallone/ Cobra style, the day
is saved and the conveniantly pretty chic is too!

Review: Stallone's 80's best underrated Action Horror film Cobra!.
Although I don't agree with this I still enjoyed the movie since Stallone didn't spend much time making his point, rather went fast for the action.YOU'RE THE DISEASE, AND I'M THE CURE!!!!!!!!
The Action sequences, the explosion, death scenes are fantastic after Rambo here comes Cobra.Is one of my best Stallone Action movies beside Tango & Cash (1989), Rambo, Rocky, Cliffhanger, Demolition Man and The Specialist it is one of my favorite action movies of all time!
YOU CAN'T TELL ME the first time you saw Stallone do a complete 180 in that pimped out ride, hang that sweet lookin' gun out of the window, and knock off a few caps at the bad guy as he drove in REVERSE (!!) that you didn't get a little tingly in your gut in a good way.People...
Now there's nothing but CGI, bigger explosions, crazier guns, fake boobies, more authentic-looking aliens, all the things I like in movies -- wait a second.You know, I realize Stallone will never win Best Actor...
Needless to say, I also liked that film a lot.I know most people don't like the movies that I like and that's OK but I want others to know that I personally have seen probably over a thousand action movies and this is one of my all-time favorites and that there are many, many others who have truly enjoyed Cobra and it has become a cult classic to action fans worldwide.
COBRA", you truly deserve what you see!Cobra is an excellent action movie because of a great macho performance (I loved the deep voice!) and screenplay from Stallone, a truly phenomenal score from my favorite composer Sylvester Levay, tight editing by Don Zimmerman and good cinematography by Ric Waite (who was also the director of photography in my other favorite, "Marked for Death" starring Steven Seagal).
Stallone plays Marion Cobretti in a superb action packed thriller filled with one liners in a funny relationship with his partner played by Reni Santoni, sexual tension with his female witness in protective custody played by his then wife Brigitte Nielsen and a raging fury from Stallone intent on eliminating the ruthless killers headed by Brian Thompson (Arnold Schwarzenegger rips his heart out in The Terminator and Jean-Claude Van Damme knocks him out with one kick in Lionheart).
With all the gingoism and American flag waving that went with the comic strip adventures of the worlds favourite fictional viet nam vet, Stallone steps up a gear into Cobra (1986), one of the tightest, exciting, well written and under-rated action movies of the past few decades.
However, Rambo Director George Pan Cosmatos gives a fresh coat of paint to this particular movie, adding stylish touches of film noir to the action genre in a way that precceeds Face/Off (1997) and a whole host of successors.
But rather than let the pizza, which is all over the floor, go to waste, he kneels down, takes a couple of pieces, bites, then leaves the room as though nothing has happened.I learned a lot from Cobra and Stallone's character, Marion Cobretti.
Sit tight for long enough and you get an enthusiastically staged car chase with ducks, machine guns, classic cars bursting from buildings, a Santa who comes close to being roadkill and badly uttered Stallone lines.Fast forward then to the film's climactic shootout on motorcycles and you're left with an action film that spends forty minutes doing everything right.Stallone emotes with cruise control and his wife-at-the-time Brigitte Nielson just wears the clothes and moves from first position to second..
This time Sylvester Stallone is against a bunch of ax wielding serial killers, with nylons over their faces, who terrorize the LA nightsWhen a fashion model happens to see the ugly face of a sadistic psychopath (Brian Thompson), Ingrid (Brigitte Nielsen) becomes the main target of the secret "New World" society stopping at nothing to slain her Lieutenant Marion Cobretti (Stallone), in his gun metal-gray classic Mercury, and armed with guns, knives, grenades, and firearms, is assigned to protect the statuesque blondeThe movie is too violent and too bloody and contains one of the most interesting car chase sequences ever filmed.
Rating: * 1/2 out of **** Cobra is an 80s flick all the way, made back in the days when macho action flicks featuring one-man armies reigned supreme, so it's technically a movie that should be right up my alley.
Hell, forget Commando, I'd estimate Cobra is only about half as good as Dolph Lundgren's The Punisher, if that says anything about where this rates in the annals of 80s macho action cinema.Sylvester Stallone stars as Lieutenant Marion Cobretti, a trigger-happy L.A. cop who shows little mercy to the scum of society.
They've got their sights set on Nielsen because she saw the Night Slasher exerting one of his more intense facial expressions on a particularly dark night, and that's apparently enough to deem her an eyewitness to a murder she clearly didn't see.Anyway, it's obvious how the rest of the movie will play out; Cobretti will make out with the model, somehow keep her completely unharmed even when getting the both of them into lots of chases and shootouts, and he'll kill all the scum before riding off with the "babe" into the proverbial sunset.
No such luck here; a fair portion of the plot is structured around the cult and their serial killings, but the film just glances over the cult's motives, and what is revealed sounds like it was (badly) ad-libbed by Brian Thompson on the spot.Just as bad is the main story revolving around Cobretti protecting the model.
The action scenes are fairly plentiful, and a few of them are even reasonably decent (the big car chase is well-shot and edited, and a later chase scene where Cobretti mows down a lot of bikers from the back of a pick-up truck hints at the fun flick this could have been if it had boasted more self-knowingly outrageous moments like that), but without any care towards plot or character, it's hard to get involved in all the mayhem, especially when a lot of these scenes are mired in boring clichés (the final showdown is set in a foundry; argghh, I hate that setting!).Even worse is the fact that almost everyone involved seemed painfully unaware they were making pulpy escapist cinema.
A lot of action movies that take themselves seriously manage to work because of (at least mild) attention to plot and characters; without these elements, the laziness of the filmmakers becomes more obvious as we watch a film that wishes to be taken seriously (there's a half-hearted attempt at a message about the hypocrisy and ineffectiveness of justice) without going into the effort to deserve that merit, and that's just plain insulting..
What Lt. Marion Cobretti is doing on witness protection detail while he could be cruising men's rooms is beyond me."Cobra" is a very '80s film, sort of a stupid cousin to the many "Dirty Harry" wannabes being pumped out at the time.
You'd think he'd give up, especially as he risks being spotted by others trying to kill this one witness, but no, this guy continues after her through the movie, Ahab in a stocking mask.Yes, indeed, "Cobra" is one stupid film.
The gang tries to kill them several times but fails, they escape from the city and prepare for a final showdown.Stallone once again delivers the goods with his films.
When I watch this movie now, it really brings back the days of my youth, when things like wacked-out cult members and maverick cops (that shoot first and ask questions later) seemed to be plausible career choices.
Hey, how can you not enjoy a little Stallone with a freaking match in his mouth and a wearing a pair of aviators spouting lines like, "You're a disease, and I'm the cure?" Not to mention, how could you not have seen this, what with TNT/TBS playing it about 35 times a year since 1990?
This movie grossed $50,000,000 in USA n $160,000,000 worldwide n this was in 1986 money......n those who were in 1986 know how much craze was there for this movie.............yes its full of cheesy but that was what it is n just take it for what it is.....critics will never understand that there is not a single way of making movies...a movie is a movie,..it will not be a realistic one always.....n IMDb has given it a 4.5 rating which is yet another foolishness from IMDb employees,yes these IMDb employees have a personal rivalry with Stallone....Stallone fans will always feel that.....movies like COBRA are popular throughout the world,more popular than IMDb's favourite RobertDeNiro n Al Pacino movies......IT Doesn't DESERVE A 4.5 BY ANY MEANS....should be at least 6.5..
So far, I haven't found a support group for this compulsion, but I'm looking into it.So I suppose in some ways I should feel grateful to Cobra because if films like this didn't exist, I should be forced to watch Star Wars again.
Cobra is one of my favourite ever movies.A lot of people have poor comments about this movie,but if u like STALLONE-this is classic.There is INCREDIBLE ACTION.Cobra is the type of movie SCHWARZENEGGER dreamed of doing.Stallone also wrote the screenplay.check the cover!--STALLONE.COBRA!Check out his car!.CRIME IS A DISEASE-STALLONE IS THE CURE-CALL THE COBRA!.
Bridjitte Nielsen, and Reni Santoni, give supporting performance to back up Sly. Our Lt. goes after the "Night Slasher" who has been seemingly killing people at random and for no apparent reason,, later on we find out that there is a strange cult at work,,and our Zombie Squad has to go up against them,, I particularly like the grocery store scene which our Lt. takes down the criminal,, kinda reminds me of Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry.
Bridjitte Nielsen steals the show for me, not only is she sexy,, she can act as well, interesting crime story ,, that is rough and tumble,, no holds barred,, probably borders on police brutality these days,, but in the 80's times were different,, good movie to watch Sly at his action best,, and kick some criminal butt..
"Cobra" is one of the most amusing and bad ass of the bunch, finding star Sylvester Stallone in fine form as Marion "Cobra" Cobretti, a cop whose job it is to take out society's garbage.
Of course, they never reckoned on the Cobra factor, as our hero continuously defies death while taking down bad guy after bad guy.Now, how CAN one hate such a definitive '80s action flick, one with a sunglasses wearing good guy who cuts his pizza with scissors, puts his newspaper on the barbecue, keeps a matchstick jutting out of his mouth, and has a witticism for most every occasion?
The acting, from everyone involved, gets the job done; Nielsen actually isn't bad at all, Brian Thompson is a riot as a nutty goon who can spit out the word "pig" like nobody's business, David Rasche pops up briefly as a horny, ill-fated photographer, and Lee Garlington is an unsmiling cop.It's been theorized, reasonably enough, that "Cobra" is Stallones' tribute to the quintessential maverick detective thriller "Dirty Harry", right down to the casting of Santoni and Robinson who were both also in that film.
The serial killer aspect is entirely Stallone's and doesn't feature in the book.The main problem with the film is that it apes "Dirty Harry" too much from its rule-bending cop on the trail of a vicious killer, right down to casting Andy Robinson and Reni Santoni from Eastwood's movie in it.
Having said that, "Cobra" is better than most of the "Dirty Harry" sequels (It's certainly better than "The Enforcer" and "The Dead Pool.") It also has the coolest poster of any of Stallone's movies (Stallone looks like he's auditioning for Arnold's role in "The Terminator" on the DVD cover!) Perhaps one reason people don't like this film is that they take exception to the casting of Stallone's then-wife, Brigitte Nielsen as the heroine.There are also some laughable "tough guy" moments (delivered seriously) like when Stallone rips a guy's vest and tells him he's bad for his health.
COBRA is said to be Sly's version of BEVERLY HILLS COP, a project he was once attached to star in.The film casts Stallone as Cobretti, a cop who takes over on cases that nobody else wants.
He chews a match, eats cold pizza, drives a fast car....and tries to protect a beautiful model from a gang of killers.Despite cardboard characters, laughable acting, ridiculous plotting, and stupid dialogue, the film's action scenes are fairly well done.
Always adorned in mirrored sunglasses, scratchy beard, and obligatory mouth-matchstick, he mumbles his way through dialogue I can't imagine him not howling at as he typed it.Obviously inspired by the "Night Stalker" killings of the previous year (1985), he gives his villain the similar moniker of the "Night *Slasher*." His change to the actual events is that it's not just one psycho, but a group of them, who spend countless hours in a factory, clanging hatchet blades together and spouting interminable rhetoric about "The New World." Our first evidence of this is the utterly infamous opening sequence involving a supermarket nutbag.Upon randomly blasting a number of Charmin and Cocoa Pebbles buyers, Stallone's "Cobra" is called in to put a stop to the madness.
Several memorable one-liners later, we're off to the main plot involving Nielsen's character being targeted by said wacko regime.Throw in some Rambo, Friday the 13th slasher elements, and Halloween II hospital madness, and you have "Cobra." You know you're in bad shape when the first MTV montage is only about twenty minutes in.
Not that this urban version of Rambo isn't up to what they can dish out.Cobra was a film created for Stallone and Nielsen whom he was involved with at the time.
"Cobra", as the story has it, is Stallone's idea of what "Beverly Hills Cop" should have been.There are always people who will say "oh, just because it's a brainless action flick doesn't mean it's bad." That's okay for a small budget production like "Death Race 2000" (which also features Stallone).
Sylvester Stallone stars as Marion Cobretti, a cop who turns one man army when an army of slashers decide to hunt Brigette Neilsen after she witnesses a murder and sees the face of the head slasher suffice to say lots of action ensues.
I am glad that people are starting to like this movie as it is one of the best action films of the 80's.
The movie stars Stallone in a Dirty Harry type role who's name is Marion Cobretti as he battles the streets of L.a. The movie is an underrated action flick with a good story, and awesome action.
At first glance the movie seems like mindless action flick and Stallone just another empty headed action hero but upon a closer look you realize that he has deep feelings underneath the surface and that the movie tells a story about true justice and those who try to stand in its way.A story about the flaws of the justice system that sets criminals free and encourages crime(the night slasher is a direct product of flawed justice system) The soundtracks are awesome as well!
There's no denying this is a cool and fresh action movie, and Stallone knows how to bring in the big bucks at the flicks with his Rambo and Rocky escapades.
The film's opening sequence is one of the best of it's genre, opening on a big striking tattooed Cobra, of course, followed by a V.O regarding factual homicide statistics from from Sly's character, get this (Marion Cobretti) before we're soon introduced to the first psycho who goes rampant in a supermarket.
With lines like "This is where the law stops, and I start," it's no wonder Stallone was cast for Judge Dredd.The best thing about this film's gotta be the music.
For those who are Stallone fans & are expecting a Rambo-like cop, go see this movie...you will not be disappointed!
Stallone stars as tough as nails cop 'Cobretti' or 'Cobra' as he is called in the movie.
Cobra is probably the worst movie ever,together with the other Sly movie Rambo 3.What makes it so bad is the message of the movie and of Stallone since he wrote the screenplay.It all comes down to this:If you are a criminal and by any chance a murderer,you don't have rights and you should be killed without prosecution.This message is to me the message of a pure fascist!The rest of the story is also inferior,together with the usual parody of acting by Stallone.If it wasn't for the first Rocky I would say that Stallone also plays in very bad movies.Still,he is of course the worst actor of all time.This movie only makes that even more clear.However,if you like this kind of stuff this is your movie to watch.
Her part is OK, she was better in "Rocky IV" as Ivan Drago's (Dolph Lundgren) wife, she has some really good scenes in that one."Cobra" is a violent, macho action movie.
The same people that do not like movies like "Death Wish" and "The Exterminator".But if you want hard-hitting, brutal and explosive '80's action at it's best, "Cobra" is the one to watch.
OK so Stallone isn't the greatest actor on Earth, but this movie is pretty dang good for an 80's action flick.
This movie's dialogue really isn't that bad and it contains a good amount of quotable one liners from Marion Cobretti(Stallone).
80's bad-ass action slasher film from Stallone I love this movie to death my personal favorite.
Cobra is my number 3 favorite action film of all time.
Rambo: First Blood Part II, First Blood and Cobra are my personal favorite 80's action films of all time.
Lt. Marion "Cobra" Cobretti (Sylvester Stallone) is the only cop who try's to prevent the murders and stop the killer.
It is my personal Stallone's favorite action film and it is rated R and they don't make movies like this anymore..