Cobra

A classic action movie...
This is a classic Sylvester Stallone action movie. It's one of the best he ever made. Cobra was mostly known for the number of people killed during the movie. It far exceeded any previous record for an action movie...bordering on the comical. Some of the things you'll remember... The match he keeps in his mouth. His awesome gun. His Mercury which is painfully destroyed during the movie. And the most memorable moment is when he meets up with "Night Slasher" (Brian Thompson) at the end and gets an earful about the judicial system. "They'll say I'm insane. Won't they...PIG!?" If ever there was a classic piece of film it's this encounter. Me and my friends still joke today about how spittle and sweat comes from his mouth when he says, "PIG!". It's hilarious. That alone is worth owning this movie. In all, it's typical of 80's action films. Sylvester's films always seem to have a fair amount of cheese in them. It's a given. At the same time...

It's Stallone
Good for wasting an hour or so, fun in a I'll grab a snack from 7-11 kind of way. It's all good:)

"This is where the law stops and I start... sucker!"
COBRA is the ultimate "bad" Sly action film, made when he was hot-trotting with Nielsen, an actress of dubious talent.

SPOILERS AHEAD!

As police Lt. Marion Cobretti, '50s throwback Stallone mumbles his way through sentences of six words or less. My faves: "Hey dirtbag! You're a lousy shot. I don't like lousy shots!" and "You're the disease... I'm the cure." Here, Sly takes on a small army of "New World Order" thugs who have been killing randomly chosen victims with knives and hatchets. When Nielsen (in a bad blonde wig) scarfs an eyeload of their leader (Thompson), the entire mob comes after her.

For no explicable reason, she falls in love her cop guardian, Mumbles Cobretti and they "do it" in a cheesy motel room while the gang, tipped off by Nielsen's bullish policewoman chaperone (Garlington), closes in. After Sly wipes out several dozen of these Harley riding fiends without sustaining a scratch, the two lovers ride off on a purloined bike. This...

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