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Cobra (1986)

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Reviews Counted: 14

Fresh: 1

Rotten:13

Average Rating: 2.5/10

Runtime: 87 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: A serial killer stalks the city, and a cop -- nicknamed Cobra -- who just won't play by the rules is hot on his trail. But the mysterious killer makes one big mistake: he (or she) leaves a witness... A serial killer stalks the city, and a cop -- nicknamed Cobra -- who just won't play by the rules is hot on his trail. But the mysterious killer makes one big mistake: he (or she) leaves a witness alive. Cobra, determined to protect the lovely fashion model witness, takes her into hiding. However, "the murderer" is really a covert legion of trained assassins with ties to the police force, and if Cobra wants to fulfill his mission and keep the model alive, he'll have to become an one-man army. [More]

Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson

Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson

Director: George P. Cosmatos

Director: George P. Cosmatos
Producer: Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus

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Feb 24, 1998

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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.

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05/06/08
TV Guide's Movie Guide

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

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05/06/08
Variety Staff
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It's fast-paced and full of gaudy action, yet it's thoroughly unsatisfying, largely because it's so lazy.

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05/06/08
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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Sub-par Stallone shoot-em-up.

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05/25/07
Steve Crum
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The body count is only somewhere in the high eighties -- and most of these are simply gunned down with a deplorable lack of invention.

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02/09/06
Time Out

No review available.

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07/04/05
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

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

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03/18/05
Emily Blunt
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01/18/04
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

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

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08/19/03
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05/29/03
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

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, but it's really the apotheosis of that violence.

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05/21/03
Nina Darnton
New York Times
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I'll take 'Ludicrous Stallone Action Flicks From the Late 80s' for $500, Alex.

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05/13/03
Widgett Walls
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02/28/03
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

Worth seeing only in a "depressing time capsule" sort of way.

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07/25/02
Scott Weinberg
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