i must have seen a different film!!

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Sylvester Stallone's Cobra(he didn't direct it but such was his clout and influence you might as well consider it his film) is an intentionally hilarious action movie which was ripped apart by critics upon release but the passage of time has somehow made it endearing, and now the film is constantly listed in the list of cult movies. Stallone plays a Dirty Harry-esque tough cop who talks in punches and one liners. His job is to safeguard a woman who was privy to a murder against a bunch of axe wielding maniacs- who happen to be the unnamed bad guys. The film is basic action set piece after another, the kind the 80s excelled in. If you're in the mood for some bad 80s movie you cannot go wrong with Cobra.

I had almost forgotten what a great simple thriller this was. Simple plot, maverick cop Marion Cobretti (Stallone) is assigned to protect a beautiful female witness from a cult of Neo-Nazi style supremacist bikers who are terrorising Los Angeles with a spate of brutal murders - You get it all here; a scene reminiscent of Halloween 2, where the cult leader (a monster of a man known as The Night Slasher) goes on a Michael Myers style killing spree at the City's hospital, plenty of bloody shootouts and fights and a couple of superb Car & Bike chases that are second only to the Mad Max movies, in terms of violence and spectacle. Really, really good stunt work and special effects! Also, there's lots of firearms, including Cobretti's hi-tech, laser sighted Jatimatic sub-machine gun, well deployed throughout the many chases and firefights!The tension throughout the film is well sustained and it is superbly atmospheric, creepy at times, but always entertaining and gripping one way or another. Brigitte Nielsen is also terrific as the model witness who they are forced to protect and she is convincingly terrified a lot of the time. Brian Thompson plays the killer in no doubt one of his first roles, and he of course later went on to play the bounty hunter in The X Files. The direction is top notch, and it was a shrewd idea, possibly by Stallone to bring in George P Cosmatos who Stallone had previously worked with on Rambo 2. Stallone is as good as ever, and if your a fan, I'm sure you've seen this a dozen times anyway. Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

1986: the battle for '80s action hero supremacy rages on, Sylvester Stallone countering Arnold Schwarzenegger's Commando (1985) with Cobra, a violent, ego-stroking exercise in machismo in which the Italian Stallion stars as hard-boiled, no-nonsense cop Marion Cobretti, whose policing methods make Dirty Harry look like a liberal by comparison.Clad in trench-coat and bun-hugging jeans, and wearing aviator shades while chewing a matchstick, cool-as-a-cucumber Cobretti is called in to do the jobs considered too dangerous for the other cops, which usually means gunning down armed psychos. This makes him the perfect man to protect fashion model Ingrid Knudsen (Brigitte Nielsen), who is the only person who can identify the leader of a gang of crazed killers that have been terrorising Los Angeles.Just about as '80s as an action flick can get, this film is full of embarrassing macho posturing from its star, and lots of expensive set-pieces in which cars get trashed, stuff blows up, and people are riddled with bullets, all accompanied by a nasty soundtrack of forgettable pop/rock songs. Cobretti saunters through the death and destruction suffering nary a scratch while offing countless bad guys with ease, pausing occasionally to mumble the obligatory witty one-liners (although none of them are very memorable on this occasion).Giving able support are Andrew Robinson as Cobretti's asshole colleague Detective Monte and Reni Santoni as gruff police boss Sergeant Tony Gonzales (both of whom were in Dirty Harry—coincidence? I think not). At the other end of the acting scale we have Brian Thompson as Night Slasher, who is truly awful, and Nielsen, who is as wooden as always, but who was cast for her looks and her willingness to sleep with the star (unsurprisingly, her mid-'80s career boost was as short-lived as her relationship with Sly).

Cutting a Pizza with a scissors is enough for me of why this movie is awesome first and most important Stallone is hilarious and amazing he totally owns the role, also Brigitte Nielsen is pretty good too and Brian Thompson in his 2nd and probably last good performance 2 years before this movie came out he looked like a skeleton now 2 years later the dude is ripped as hell. Let's also not forget the amazing soundtrack like 'Feel The Heat' and 'Angel Of The City' easily one of my favorite movies of Stallone next to Rambo, Rocky, Expendables and many many more. It's not meant to be taken seriously but it's one hell of an experience. Cobra is without a doubt a classic movie and it gets an A+