Cobra
Cobra poster
Directed by	George P. Cosmatos
Produced by	Menahem Golan Yoram Globus
Written by	Novel Fair Game : Paula Gosling Screenplay: Sylvester Stallone
Starring	Sylvester Stallone Brigitte Nielsen Reni Santoni Brian Thompson Andrew Robinson Art LaFleur Lee Garlington David Rasche
Music by	Sylvester Levay
Cinematography	Ric Waite
Editing by	James R. Symons Don Zimmerman
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Cannon Films
Release date(s)	May 23, 1986 (USA)
Running time	87 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Gross revenue	$49,042,224 (USA) $160,000,000 (Worldwide)
IMDb profile

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The film, written by Stallone, was loosely based on a 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. Cobra was a modest hit at the box office and cult favorite, but was widely panned by critics for its cartoonish violence and cliched plot. Fair Game is a 1995 action movie starring Cindy Crawford as a beautiful civil rights lawyer, and William Baldwin as a cop with some troubles in his life. ... Fair Game is a 1995 action movie starring Cindy Crawford as a beautiful civil rights lawyer, and William Baldwin as a cop with some troubles in his life. ... The year 1995 in film involved some significant events. ... Beverly Hills Cop (1984) is an American comedy film directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy. ...

Plot

Marion Cobretti (Stallone), a rough Police officer with a reputation for doing "the dirty work" is called in to a hostage situation at a grocery store when negotiations fail. Cobretti kills the gunman himself after infiltrating the building, but before his death the criminal mumbles of a "New Order" in the world: a group of supremacists who believe in killing the weak and leaving only the strongest and themselves to live and rule the world.

The event at the supermarket is connected to a string of recent and seemingly unconnected acts of violence that have broken loose in Los Angeles. Unbeknownst to the general public, these murders are the work of the same supremacist group that the supermarket gunman spoke of. Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ...

After witnessing several individuals (and the Order's leader) at the scene of one of the murders late at night, Nielsen's character becomes the target of the group, and the only witness to their crimes. She is placed under the protective custody of Cobretti and his partner. After several attempts are made on their lives, it is decided that it would be safest that they relocate from the city. Brigitte Nielsen (born July 15, 1963) is a Danish actress who became popular in the 1980s for her marriage to actor Sylvester Stallone, whom she met while making the film Rocky IV. She subsequently appeared with him in the film Cobra, and was noted for her widely publicized breakup with...

Shortly after venturing out into the countryside, Cobretti becoming romantically involved with the witness, one of the Order's leaders (who was also a police officer) reveals the location of Cobretti, the witness, and Cobretti's partner. The Order sieges the small town that the three were staying in. Cobretti and the witness escape in a Dodge Ram pick-up truck assuming his partner is dead. After the truck becomes severely damaged, the two bail out into a lemon grove and escape into a nearby factory. Most of the Order has been killed or disabled by Cobretti at this point, and only few follow them. After eliminating every member aside from the leader, The Night Slasher, a huge muscle bound type played by Brian Thompson, Cobretti and the leader engage in a hand-to-hand duel inside the steel mill, ending with the Order's leader being impaled and burned alive by Cobretti. See also Dodge Ram 50, an unrelated Mitsubishi-produced truck The Ram is a full-size pickup truck from Chrysler LLCs Dodge brand. ... Brian Thompson on the set of the feature film Tillamook Treasure. ...

In the aftermath, Cobretti's department has arrived and begun clean-up of the town, the Order is all but eliminated, and the ending credits begin with Stallone and Nielsen climbing onto one of the many motorcycles left by the Order and riding away.

Video game

• Ocean Software released a video game in 1986 to coincide with the film's release. The game a side-scrolling action game where the player controls Cobretti as he tries to defeat the cult of the Night Slasher and protect model Ingrid from their wrath. Released for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC, the game is well-known for its music score and its high level of difficulty. The music is arranged by Ben Daglish. Due to a rush to get the game out in time for the film's release, there was no final boss programmed in to end the game; Once the first three levels are completed, the game repeats.

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See also

• Fair Game, an 1986 action movie from Australia. (Fair Game on IMDB)
• Jatimatic, the rare Finnish submachinegun that Stallone uses in Cobra.

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External links

• Cobra at the Internet Movie Database
• Cobra movie review (with animated screenshots and original Commodore 64 game)

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