Cobra

Cobra is a 1986 action film directed by George P. Cosmatos, and starring Sylvester Stallone, Reni Santoni and Brigitte Nielsen. The screenplay by Stallone was loosely based on the novel Fair Game by Paula Gosling, which was also filmed under that title in 1995; it also arose out of Stallone's original ideas for the film Beverly Hills Cop. He had wanted to make a less comedic, more action-oriented film. When he left that project, Eddie Murphy was ... more

Cobra is a 1986 action film directed by George P. Cosmatos, and starring Sylvester Stallone, Reni Santoni and Brigitte Nielsen. The screenplay by Stallone was loosely based on the novel Fair Game by Paula Gosling, which was also filmed under that title in 1995; it also arose out of Stallone's original ideas for the film Beverly Hills Cop. He had wanted to make a less comedic, more action-oriented film. When he left that project, Eddie Murphy was brought in to play the lead role. Marion Cobretti aka "the Cobra" (Sylvester Stallone), a police officer from a division of the police known as the “Zombie Squad”, is called into a hostage situation at a grocery store when negotiations fail. Cobretti kills the gunman, but before his death the criminal mumbles of a "New Order": a group of supremacists who believe in killing the weak and leaving only the strongest and themselves to live and rule the world. When the bodies were taken out of the supermarket, Cobretti is admonished by Detective... less