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Crime is the disease and Sylvester Stallone is the cure in Cobra, a high-octane rehash of the Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry films, burnished to a 1980s action sheen. Stallone is Marion Cobretti, a cop ca... read more read more...lled in when regular police methods have failed. Cobra is sent to get a cult of Charles Manson-like serial killers and to protect Ingrid (Brigitte Nielsen), a beautiful, statuesque witness who is set to testify against them. Cobra deposits Ingrid in an out-of-the-way town for safe-keeping, but a mole in the police department tips off the killers. The gang comes racing into town to get Ingrid, but Cobra is there waiting for them, ready to spring into action. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 27 min.

Directed by: George P. Cosmatos

Release Date: May 23, 1986

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DVD Release Date: July 3, 2001

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  • blkbomb
    December 13, 2011
    blkbomb
    Cobretti: Hey dirtbag, you're a lousy shot. I don't like lousy shots. You wasted a kid... for nothing. Now I think it's time to waste you! 

    "Crime is the disease. Meet the Cure."

    What an awful fucking movie this is. Cobra has to be one of the worst 80's action movies I have eve... read morer seen. There is nothing about it that I liked or that was in any way good. Everybody involved is horrible. Everyone. I don't hate Sylvester Stallone, but damn his screenplay for this is shit and his acting is not much better. But the worst thing about the movie has to be how cool Stallone and director George P. Cosmatos think it is. You have bad guys clanking axes together, Stallone walking around in aviators with the nickname Cobra. He's tough, he doesn't take shit, he doesn't play by their rules. Oh my God, I hate it.

    Cobra is a cop who does all the stuff no one else wants to do. He is ruthless and like Harry Callahan, plays by his own rules. He isn't afraid to kill the bad guys. There's a serial killer on the loose going by the very clever name of "Nightslasher." Give me a fucking break. So the whole movie is Stallone acting hardcore. He shoots a lot of people, there are car chases, he fucks a hot girl, and I sat watching, bored and completely irritated at just how bad the movie kept getting. It started bad, but it just kept growing exponentially in awfulness as it went.

    Another noteworthy element that shows how godawful this is, is that everyone involves believes this movie to be so badass and just oozing in testosterone. Then they play the douchiest 80's songs they could find. That's the kind of music I love to hear from a movie that is all about ruthlessness and brutality. 

    Do yourself a huge favor and don't watch this. Stallone made many, many bad movies over his career, but from what I've seen this takes the cake.
  • TheGame90
    September 18, 2011
    TheGame90
    suprisingly good
  • ythelastman89
    August 12, 2010
    ythelastman89
    I would like to nominate Cobra for being the coolest movie ever made. It seems that every shot was carefully plotted to have the best looking angle and hint of awesome. The color usage is unmatched for the genre. Even without the 80s backdrop it would still be the movie it is. Th... read moree action sequences rival Mad Max 2 for being 100% innovative, fun and original. The truck scene with Sly in the back firing a machine gun is the epitome of car chase scenes. I love the plot and execution of it, there was a real sense of this different world and set of rules. Only someone like the Night Slasher could be an adversary for The Cobra. Sylvester Stallone gives a flawless and completely and utterly memorable character. Marion Cobretti is the ultimate rough cop that shoots without asking, all he has to do is know they're bad and it's over. Brigitte Nielsen is unbelievably breathtaking as the foreign model Ingrid. Brian Thompson as the Night Slasher is evil in every way imaginable and has some of the best lines as the character. I just can't sing this movies praises enough.
  • DragonEyeMorrison
    March 1, 2010
    DragonEyeMorrison
    More derivative vigilante propaganda, another boring stone-face performance by Stallone.
  • SirPant
    February 22, 2010
    SirPant
    Very silly and very dated, the fact they never made a sequel says a lot! The cool poster promises so much more than you actually get. I didn't expect a masterpiece to be honest but I have been looking forward to seeing this since I was 7 years old! Oh well, I'm sure I'll get over... read more it!
  • kpn666
    November 7, 2009
    kpn666
    The stereotypical 80's action flick.... violence, sex appeal, pop music and Stallone.

    its not like theres anything really going for it except the cool 80's factor and soundtrack, which was okay. Stallone once again mumbles his way through the movie as hard boiled cop Cobra, pro... read moretecting a witness played by the sexy Brigitte Neilsen who is being hunted by an army of psychos, hell bent on reforming the world order.

    It was a concept ahead of its time , funnily enough. XD I bet noone even considered psycho gangs going out as serial killers, but then again, we need an army of bad guys to pile up the body count, as thats why Sly does best. '

    Anyways, the movie is about coolness and badassness... and Cobra is a bad ass character with flaws. Like advising his partner on being too violent and lowering his sugar levels, to joking that his parents should have named him Alice. But then we have the bad ass look with the match in the mouth, the ivory handled pistol grip with a cobra emblazoned on it, the 1950 Mercury is one helluva car for a kick ass cop, and of course, his sub machine gun with laser sight. and dont forget the usual badass long coat. XD


    Anyways.... 3 stars for being a true cheesy 80's flick. Its so bad, it was good.
  • stormyweather980
    September 10, 2009
    stormyweather980
    Like most of Stallone's action movies, "Cobra" is an exciting, action packed movie. Sylvester Stallone stars as Cobra, a cop who is well known for tracking down and killing psychopathic killers who are on the loose killing innocent people. While tracking down these serial killers... read more, Cobra is also protecting a woman (Brigitte Nielsen) from danger by carrying her with him.
    "Cobra" might not be one of the Stallone movies that you hear a lot about such as "Rambo" or "Rocky," but that doesn't mean that i's not a great movie. "Cobra" is full of spectacular driving, fighting, and shooting action sequences while Cobra does his action packed job by showing the criminals that Cobra is as deadly as a cobra.

    I recommend anybody who likes action movies with tons of exciting action sequences to get "Cobra." It might not get the credit for it, but "Cobra" is one of Sylvester Stallone's best action movies. NOTE: That was my Amazon review from the year 2000. Stallone's indeed awesome, will miss him.
  • tsigur
    December 11, 2007
    tsigur
    I like the fact that he looked like he was in such good shape but only survived on little slices of pizza.
  • harrycaul
    November 25, 2007
    harrycaul
    As silly a cop thriller as you're likely to see. It's difficult to decide who's the most brainless here: the Police Department, who can't tell the difference between a lone serial killer and a gang of psycho bikers, even when Stallone gets into a car chase with, wait for it, TWO ... read moreother vehicles; the gang leader, who decides the best way to protect his identity is to make ever more high profile and outrageous attacks on the witness who can identify him; or Stallone's maverick cop, who lets said witness fend for herself at the climax while he goes off wasting gang members. This outdoes most Schwarzenegger movies of the period for appalling one-liners, too.
  • garyX
    November 22, 2007
    garyX
    Marion Cobretti is a cop. A cop who doesn't play by the "rules". A cop who gets results. A cop who dresses like a male stripper. A cop who is clearly in love with his car and probably jerks off over copies of Guns & Ammo. The villains are a collection of killers who casually slau... read moreghter everyone in their way, conveniently removing any need for a plot or characterisation so a Sly untroubled by thought or conscience can just throw enough ordnance at them to invade the continental USA, while the surrounding traffic spontaneously explode into balls of flame. Brigitte Nielsen (another of cinema's finest acting talents) is also on hand to model a series of crimes against fashion to a horrific AOR rawk ballad, intercut with a montage of gratuitous violence while the bad guy sharpens his weapon. This laughably offensive testosterone-soaked tripe is one of the worst examples of 80s tackiness around, and is so inane and simplistic it could easily be mistaken for a spoof. At least Arnie would've injected a little humour into the proceedings; Stallone just made it a bone-headed ego-trip that makes Rocky IV look positively sophisticated.

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Variety Staff
May 6, 2008
Variety Staff, Variety

Cobra is a sleek, extremely violent and exciting police thriller. Full Review

Dave Kehr
May 6, 2008
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

It's fast-paced and full of gaudy action, yet it's thoroughly unsatisfying, largely because it's so lazy. Full Review

Nina Darnton
May 21, 2003
Nina Darnton, New York Times

The film trades on the same technique used by books that attack pornography by printing examples of the dirty pictures. Cobra pretends to be against the wanton violence of a disintegrating society, bu... Full Review

Peter Canavese
September 5, 2011
Peter Canavese, Groucho Reviews

Dated and unintentionally laughable, Cobra will always be best known for the catchphrase "You're a disease and I'm the cure." Ironically, any audience foolhardy enough to brave this ugly movie is liab... Full Review

David Nusair
August 13, 2011
David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

...an exciting, blisteringly-paced actioner that benefits substantially from Sylvester Stallone's engrossing work as the title character. Full Review

May 6, 2008
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Every aspect of this film is reprehensible. Stallone's character is an empty hulk; the few attempts to provide us with little insights into his character are downright laughable. Full Review

Steve Crum
May 25, 2007
Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com

Sub-par Stallone shoot-em-up.

February 9, 2006
Time Out

The body count is only somewhere in the high eighties -- and most of these are simply gunned down with a deplorable lack of invention. Full Review

Emily Blunt
March 18, 2005
Emily Blunt, Blunt Review

Camp for adults. This is before Nielson got all puffy and drunkish too!

August 19, 2003
Film4

An adequate no-brainer that does little to distinguish itself from the rest of Sly's action man back catalogue. Full Review

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