Cobra (1986)
Average Rating: 2.7/10
Reviews Counted: 16
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 14
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Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 3
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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 called 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
May 23, 1986 Wide
Jul 3, 2001
Warner Home Video
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Cast
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Sylvester Stallone
Marion Cobretti -
Brigitte Nielsen
Ingrid -
Reni Santoni
Gonzales -
Andrew Robinson
Detective Monte -
Lee Garlington
Nancy Stalk -
John Herzfeld
Cho -
Art La Fleur
Capt. Sears -
Brian Thompson
Night Slasher -
David Rasche
Dan -
Val Avery
Chief Halliwell -
Marco Rodriguez
Supermarket Killer -
Christine Craft
TV Reporter -
Bert Williams
Comdr. Reddesdale -
Nick Angotti
Prodski -
Nina Axelrod
Waitress -
Roger Aaron Brown
Policeman #2 -
Malik Carter
Night Guard -
Louise Caire Clark
Woman in Car -
Ken Hill
Garage Bystander -
Robert Martini
Apartment Killer #1 -
Dorothy Meyer
Nurse #1 -
Leslie Morris
Reporter #1 -
Jim Wilkey
Apartment Killer #2 -
Kevin Breslin
Supermarket Kid -
Deborah Dalton
Nurse #2 -
Laura Drake
Murdered Waitress -
Ross St. Phillip
Security Guard -
Fred Lucky
Sketch Artist -
Joe Fowler
Reporter #6 -
Claire Nono
Reporter #2 -
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Cobra is a sleek, extremely violent and exciting police thriller.
It's fast-paced and full of gaudy action, yet it's thoroughly unsatisfying, largely because it's so lazy.
The body count is only somewhere in the high eighties -- and most of these are simply gunned down with a deplorable lack of invention.
Top CriticThe 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, but it's really the apotheosis of that violence.
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 liable to stagger out feeling mighty sick. [Blu-ray]
...an exciting, blisteringly-paced actioner that benefits substantially from Sylvester Stallone's engrossing work as the title character.
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.
Sub-par Stallone shoot-em-up.
Camp for adults. This is before Nielson got all puffy and drunkish too!
An adequate no-brainer that does little to distinguish itself from the rest of Sly's action man back catalogue.
I'll take 'Ludicrous Stallone Action Flicks From the Late 80s' for $500, Alex.
Worth seeing only in a "depressing time capsule" sort of way.
Audience Reviews for Cobra
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- Marion 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!
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- Gonzales: I would kill for some...
- Marion Cobretti: What?
- Gonzales: Gummy bears.
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- Marion Cobretti: You're a disease - and I'm the cure.
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"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 ever 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.