Cobra stars Sylvester Stallone as Lt. Marion 'Cobra' Cobretti, a cop who does things his way and annoys his superiors, but when a woman witnesses a murder by a group calling themselves "The New Order", Cobra finds himself in the fight of his life to protect her.
Cobra is in one way trying to do a Dirty Harry type film where not only do you have the violence extravaganza but also the commentary about violence in society as a whole, but this issue is only partially explored as Stallone's script prefers to go for the guns and blow everyone away with reckless abandon, now I did enjoy some of it as well as Andrew Robinson in a small role but the film's last act which I'm certain was inspired by the finale of the first Terminator film really got on my nerves due to its mindless action and lack of caring with the films characters or storyline up to that point.
In short, what could have been an interesting action picture with some good action and interesting villains and story just becomes another action picture that just leaves you bored by the end of it all, apparently this was what Stallone had in mind for the first Beverly Hills Cop film, thankfully Paramount had other ideas, just a 1 and a half out of 5.
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