Cobra is also the name of
one of the worst - there are many to choose from, mind you -
movies by and with
Sylvester Stallone. Playing a very
violent cop, Sly goes around
killing people and delivering
one-liners such as
You're the disease. Meet the cure.
or something like that. Stallone's then wife,
danish Brigitte Nielsen co-starred. Cobra is loosely based on the novel
Fair Game by
Paula Gosling - also made into a movie with
Alec Baldwin and
Cindy Crawford - and also on the script for
Beverly Hills Cop, where Stallone was offered to play
Axel Foley. Sylvester, if you're reading this: We're glad that you passed that one on to
Eddie Murphy.
I haven't seen this flick since the late eighties, but as I remember it is so amazingly stupid it's funny. It has the kind of acting that you feel bad for the poor actors. The plot makes "any episode of "Starsky & Hutch" seem like Hemingway by comparison" as one review said and I can only agree. The characters, the dialogue, the plot and the whole production are so stereotyped and full of clichés that it's ridiculous.
Cobra was released after the hugely successful Rambo in 1986, and was an attempt to create yet another hero following Rocky and John Rambo. Similar movies from this time are: