This movie is missing something that the other Sly movies have. Action is good. Best part is Sly and what he looks like. The movie seemed more about how Sly looked than anything else.

There's nothing fancy about Cobra, it's a down and dirty action flick from the best era of action films period!Sylvester Stallone + 1980's = epic! Cobra came along at the right time and thank God it did, unlike the films of today that have to be polished and conform to strict guidelines, Cobra made up its own rules and did whatever the Hell it wanted.It's cool without really trying at all, Stallone is slick and his appearance oozes machismo, his black mop of hair, the sunglasses that are more manly than anything you see in modern action films, his no nonsense attitude, man he'll kick your ass for just looking at him wrong, the plot is simple but oh boy does it work!The opening scene and the action within sets the tone and you know exactly what to expect from Cobra thereafter, a lone gunman walks into a supermarket, without warning or clear motive he begins to shoot up the place......In steps Marion Cobretti, more commonly known as Cobra, without breaking a sweat he immediately puts the scarers into the gunman before taking him down like a pro, awesome. What follows is a simple story of the police, plus Cobra, trying to take down a murderous cult who's sole intention is to kill, as simple as that, nothing fancy, nothing elaborate, just some plain old bad guys doing some seriously weird bad guy stuff. Personally I really enjoyed the car chase scene involving Cobra and a girl he has just rescued, Ingrid, chasing down the bad guys, again a simple car chase with some awesome, realistic stunts, like racing up and down a roller coaster of a road.Aww breathe it in, when action films were seriously cool, if you intend to watch Cobra, remember one thing, just enjoy it, nothing more, don't analyse it, don't expect extravagance, this is pure action from a bygone era, OH the 80's!

"Cobra" is certainly one of the lesser '80s action flicks. It doesn't have all that much action, and isn't thrilling enough to be called a thriller. It's tiresome and uneventful.Despite having two actors from the greatest action movie ever made, "Dirty Harry" - the Hispanic partner playing another Hispanic partner, though he does absolutely nothing but inevitably get hurt, and the legendary Andrew Robinson, who played the best villain in motion picture history in that film, but plays the typical namby pamby bleeding heart liberal cop who doesn't like the hero's ridiculous excesses in this one - "Cobra" is more a spiritual successor to "Death Wish". It depicts crime as a faceless curse made of people of every persuasion, black, white, Hispanic, male, female; even one is a policewoman. As "Cobra" himself says, "you're the disease, and I'm the cure."There is no point trying to reason with or understand the individual criminal, because they don't exist. There are no sociological causes for crime - the traditional left wing scapegoats are gone: you can't blame race because they're every colour, you can't blame gender because there are female ones too, you can't blame poverty because some are professionals. They're also all barking mad. A potential point of interest for the movie might have been showing more of the criminals' reason for being, this "New World" that they beguilingly hint at, and why they are often pictured in groups, banging two axes together.But no. We don't see anywhere near enough of them. It's annoying the way they are so obviously kept in the dark to service the movie's right wing agenda. The bad guys are the only thing this movie has going for it - Brian Thompson makes a great bad guy - but we barely get to see him or them. Crime has no cause: it's a "disease", remember?Aside from that the action scenes are negligible. There's a boring car chase and some shoot outs that have obviously had the violence toned down: we see guys fall as if shot but without any gunshot wounds to speak of.There is also no sex or nudity; it's so sanitized it's like a Chuck Norris movie without martial arts.Stallone also looks as small in this one as I can remember seeing him. I wonder if he laid off the roids around this time.

The winning team of writer/actor Sly Stallone and director George P Cosmatos collaborate for a second time after making the 80's action classic Rambo- First Blood pt.2. Cobra has been a long time favorite of mine that holds up well through the years and multiple viewings. Cobra borrows a lot from Don Siegel/Clint Eastwood classic Dirty Harry, but amp up the action 80's style ala Rambo and Commando. Add dark ambiance and one liners that were common in Commando and you get Cobra. Sly is Marion Cobretti, a super cop and submachine gun wielding one man army. He is part of the "Zombie Squad and is an asset that is utilized when the LAPD need extra stopping power on the bad guys. He becomes involved on a case where he must protect a witness against a secret society of psychopaths led by The Night Slasher(Brian Thompson). Brian Thompson nearly steals the show with his amazing performance as a stone cold psychopath. His performance was dark, brooding and totally intense. The Night Slasher is one of my favorite screen villains and Brian Thompson's performance is second to none. Even with an all out roid rage, our hero Cobra has his hands full. Sly's wife at the time Brigitte Nielson gives one of her better performances as damsel in distress and also was some great eye candy as well. Reni Santoni and Andrew Robinson of Dirty Harry fame did well in their support roles. The film looks great and is packed with tons of action. Cobra still rules and is one of the most entertaining action films to come out of Hollywood in the good ole' days of the 1980's.