Cobra (1986 film)

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Cobra
Cobra movie poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster by John Alvin
Directed by George P. Cosmatos
Screenplay by Sylvester Stallone
Based onFair Game
by Paula Gosling
Produced by Menahem Golan
Yoram Globus
Starring
Cinematography Ric Waite
Edited byJames R. Symons
Don Zimmerman
Music by Sylvester Levay
Production
company
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date
May 23, 1986 (1986-05-23)
Running time
89 minutes [1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$25 million [2] [3]
Box office$160 million [4]

Cobra is a 1986 American action film directed by George P. Cosmatos and written by Sylvester Stallone, who also stars in the titular role. The film co-stars Reni Santoni, Brigitte Nielsen and Andrew Robinson. [5] Loosely based on the novel A Running Duck by Paula Gosling (later published as Fair Game and filmed under that title in 1995), Cobra follows police detective Marion "Cobra" Cobretti as he investigates a string of violent crimes while also protecting a witness targeted by the perpetrators.

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Cobra is the second and final film which featured the collaboration between Stallone and Nielsen after Rocky IV (1985) until Creed II (2018), and their only film they worked together after their marriage before they divorced in 1987. The film's screenplay was largely inspired by Stallone's original screenplay for Beverly Hills Cop (1984).

Cobra was released to generally negative reviews with criticism focused on its excessive violence and overuse of genre tropes, but it was a box office success, earning $49 million in the U.S. and $160 million worldwide. It has since been considered a cult classic. [6] [7]

Plot

A mass shooting at a supermarket in Los Angeles evolves into a hostage crisis, which prompts the Los Angeles Police Department to summon Lt. Marion "Cobra" Cobretti, a member of their elite "Zombie Squad", to resolve the crisis. Infiltrating the supermarket, Cobretti stands off with the shooter, who espouses social Darwinist ideals and mentions a "New World", and kills him before he can execute a group of hostages. As the scene is processed, Cobretti is reprimanded by Detective Monte for his seeming disregard for police procedures and protocols, while Cobretti himself admonishes a group of reporters harassing him for not prioritizing the safety of potential victims.

Unbeknownst to the authorities, the supermarket incident is only part of a string of seemingly unconnected violent crimes in Los Angeles committed by the aforementioned "New World", a social Darwinist cult that despises modern society and believes in killing the weak, leaving only the strongest and smartest to rule the world. Ingrid Knudsen, a model and businesswoman, becomes the New World's priority target after witnessing several cultists, including their leader only known as the "Night Slasher", going on a killing spree. She is placed under the protective custody of Cobretti and his partner Sergeant Tony Gonzales after a failed attempt on her life.

When more attempts to kill Ingrid and Cobretti are committed by multiple cultists, Cobretti theorizes the Night Slasher and his crimes are being committed by a larger organization of killers (the New World), but his theory is rebuffed by his superiors. However, the LAPD agrees with Cobretti that it will be safest if Ingrid be moved out of Los Angeles. Cobretti, Gonzales, and Ingrid travel to the small town of San Remos, where Cobretti becomes romantically involved with Ingrid. The New World sends their second-in-command, Officer Nancy Stalk, to infiltrate their police escort and compromise their whereabouts; despite Cobretti's suspicions and mistrust of Nancy, he does nothing and the group spends the night in a motel.

At dawn, the New World arrives in San Remos on motorcycles and besieges the town, Directed by Nancy, who is spotted by Cobretti and Gonzales. In the ensuing shootout, Cobretti manages to kill many of the New World cultists, but Gonzales is wounded and their motel room is destroyed. Cobretti and Ingrid flee San Remos in a pickup truck, but the cultists give chase and wreck the pickup truck with a roadblock, forcing the pair to flee through a grapefruit plantation to a nearby steel mill, pursued by the Night Slasher, Nancy, and the remaining cultists. Cobretti manages to defeat the rest of the New World cultists in the steel mill, and gets Nancy accidentally killed when the Night Slasher shoots her during a struggle with Cobretti.

The Night Slasher fights Cobretti in vicious hand-to-hand combat, but is killed when Cobretti impales him with a large hook that drags him into a furnace, burning him alive. With the New World vanquished, the California Highway Patrol secures San Remos, and Gonzales is rescued and hospitalized. As Cobretti is cleared by his superiors, Monte arrives and initially appears apologetic, only to again chastise Cobretti for "overdoing it", prompting Cobretti to punch Monte in the face before he and Ingrid ride away on a motorcycle.

Cast

Production

Development and writing

When Sylvester Stallone was signed to play the lead in Beverly Hills Cop, he decided to rewrite the script almost completely, removing nearly all the comedic aspects and turning it into an action movie that he felt was better suited to him. The studio read his revised script and rejected it. [8] The proposed action scenes would have increased the budget far beyond what they planned. [2] Stallone later channeled his ideas for it into an original script. [7] When Stallone left Beverly Hills Cop, Eddie Murphy was brought in to play the lead role. [9]

The novel A Running Duck by Paula Gosling was cited as source material, enough so that she received a screen credit.

Sylvester Stallone's earlier draft of the script contained many differences from later drafts and the final film. These include the opening shootout taking place in a movie theater (instead of a supermarket), during which many more people are killed; Cobra mentioning how he had a girlfriend who was killed by a psychopath he was trying to catch; an additional nighttime action sequence on a boat where Cobra and Ingrid are hiding and are attacked by the Night Slasher's cultists, with Cobra and Gonzalez managing to kill them all; and a different ending, in which Monte, revealed to be the actual leader of the New World, attempts to kill Ingrid at the last second before being killed by Cobretti. [10]

The line, "This is where the law stops and I start, sucker!", was inspired by a line spoken by Steve McQueen in The Reivers . [11]

Cobra needed much additional editing because the film was so graphically violent that it originally received an X rating. It was edited to receive an R rating.

Casting

Brian Thompson auditioned seven times before he was hired. On the fourth audition he met Stallone, who thought that Thompson was too nice to play the Night Slasher. But after a screen test, he immediately got the job. Also, in the original script, the Night Slasher was called Abaddon, possibly after the "angel of the abyss" from the Bible.

Thompson repeatedly sought Stallone's advice about how to play the Night Slasher, including questions about his background and personal motivations, but Stallone showed no interest in the subject and told Thompson that the character was simply evil. In an unfortunate surprise for Thompson, after filming was completed, director Cosmatos unexpectedly told him: "You could have been good if you had listened to me."

Stallone acknowledged Dirty Harry as an influence [11] and Cobra reunited two actors from the film: Reni Santoni and Andy Robinson.

Brigitte Nielsen, Stallone's then-wife who he had met filming Rocky IV , was cast as Ingrid Knudsen. [6] [11]

Filming

Originally, Cobra was supposed to be filmed in Seattle, climaxing with a motorcycle chase scene on a ferry between the islands. Even though everything was prepared to start filming the final theatrical version of the scene at night, Stallone demanded the ending be changed because of the mosquito problem at that time, which would have made night time filming very difficult to endure.

The supporting cast and extras were forbidden from talking to Stallone on set. [12]

At one point during filming, Stallone complained to cinematographer Ric Waite that they were falling behind and that he needed to push his crew to work harder. Waite responded by telling Stallone that the delays were due to his fooling around with Brigitte Nielsen and showing off for his bodyguards. Although Stallone was shocked that somebody would talk to him that way, he cleaned up his act and behaved more professionally, although he returned to his old egocentric behavior a few weeks later. Waite later said in an interview that, despite his huge ego, Stallone had a great sense of humor. He said George P. Cosmatos would have made a great producer, but he was a terrible director. [12]

During a stunt scene, driver Kerry Rossall and another stuntman were injured after Rossall intentionally crashed a van into a wall. Nielsen was nearly hit by the van during a previous take. [13]

For the Night Slasher's monologue in the lead-up to the final fight, Brian Thompson did the scene with the script supervisor standing in for Stallone, who was busy watching a basketball game on TV.

The custom 1950 Mercury driven by Cobretti was actually owned by Sylvester Stallone. The studio produced stunt doubles of the car for use in some of the action sequences, such as the jump from the second floor of the parking garage. The production built three "Cobra cars" for stunt work. Although they were identical on the outside, their moving parts were designed for specific sequences, involving high-speed swipes with other vehicles, 180-degree turns, jumps, and 360-degree spins. [1] [14]

The knife used by the Night Slasher was made for the film by knife designer Herman Schneider. [1] Sylvester Stallone asked Schneider to create a knife that audiences would never forget. Cobretti uses a custom Colt Gold Cup National Match 1911, modified to chamber 9×19mm Parabellum. Later in the film, he uses a Jatimatic submachine gun. [1] [15]

Music

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Copra1986album.jpg
Soundtrack album by
various artists
Released1986 (1986)
Genre Rock, pop
Length37:56
Label Scotti Bros. Records
Producer Robin Garb

An audio cassette and vinyl version were released on September 21, 1986, followed by a CD which was released in 1992 as the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. [16]

Stan Bush's song "The Touch", heard in Transformers: The Movie (1986), was originally written for Cobra. [17] It is said "Feel The Heat" was overheard during the filming of its music video by Jean Beauvoir when they were editing in the same building complex, and was added because Stallone loved the song.

No.TitleMusicLength
1."Voice of America's Sons (Theme From Cobra)" John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band 4:36
2."Feel the Heat" Jean Beauvoir 4:01
3."Loving on Borrowed Time (Love Theme from Cobra)" Gladys Knight & Bill Medley 3:59
4."Skyline" Sylvester Levay 3:24
5."Hold on to Your Vision" Gary Wright 3:44
6."Suave" Miami Sound Machine 3:03
7."Cobra"Sylvester Levay3:09
8."Angel of the City" Robert Tepper 4:28
9."Chase"Sylvester Levay3:31
10."Two into One"Bill Medley & Carmen Twillie 4:01
Total length:37:56

Release

Versions

The first rough cut was over two hours long (the closest estimated original running time is 130 minutes). It was then shortened to a roughly two-hour director's cut which was intended to be released in theaters. However, after Top Gun became a smash hit, Stallone and Warner Bros. were worried that Cobra—which would premiere the following week—would be overshadowed, so in order to ensure at least one extra screening each day the movie was heavily re-edited. Stallone removed much of the plot and scenes involving characters other than his own. Warner Bros. also demanded that the more graphic scenes be cut down or removed entirely because they were "too intense," and that some action scenes be cut for pacing. [18] The extended television version of the film is approximately 6 minutes longer than the theatrical release. [19] When first submitted to the MPAA the film received an X rating, necessitating even more cuts.

Reception

Box office

Cobra opened the widest for a Warner Bros. release at the time [20] opening on 2,131 screens and debuted at number one at the U.S. box office with a Memorial Day weekend debut of $15.7 million. [6] It eventually went on to gross $160 million, [4] over six times its estimated $25 million budget. [2] According to The New York Times , the film was still considered a disappointment because its $48 million at the box office in the US did not live up to the success of Rambo. [21]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 18% based on 22 reviews, with an average rating of 3.40/10. The website's consensus reads, "A disengaged Sylvester Stallone plays the titular Cobra with no bite in this leaden action thriller, queasily fixated on wanton carnage and nothing else." [22] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 25 out of 100 based on 9 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". [23] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "B" on scale of A to F. [24]

TV Guide stated that "Stallone's character is an empty hulk...the few attempts to provide us with little insights into his character are downright laughable." [25] Nina Darnton of The New York Times opined that the film "pretends to be against the wanton violence of a disintegrating society, but it's really the apotheosis of that violence....[it] shows such contempt for the most basic American values", [26] and Vincent Canby called it "disturbing for the violence it portrays, the ideas it represents and the large number of people who will undoubtedly go to see it and cheer on its dangerous hero." [27] Sheila Benson of the Los Angeles Times panned the film, saying "Cobra's pretentious emptiness, its dumbness, its two-faced morality make it a movie that begs to be laughed off." [28]

Variety called it "a sleek, extremely violent and exciting police thriller" and compared Cobra favorably to Rocky and Rambo. [29]

Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune compared Cobra to Dirty Harry when giving the film 2 and 1/2 stars and summarizing it as "Filthy Harry". He wrote: "Whereas Clint Eastwood simply would have squinted at Robinson, Stallone takes a more violent approach. Maybe that's the difference between actors--Eastwood can be droll; Stallone more often crosses the border to primeval." [30] Siskel and Roger Ebert did not give the film a feature review on their TV show, but both gave it negative attention during a late-1986 segment on new video releases, in which Siskel noted that the film had a great opening sequence (the supermarket hostage scene) and couldn't maintain the momentum. Ebert lamented that Stallone was squandering his talent and vast potential.

The 1996 movie guide "Seen That, Now What?", the film was given the rating of "C-", stating that the film is "a graceless vigilante thriller that's strictly for hard-core[sic] action junkies." [31]

Then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan viewed this film at Camp David on June 6, 1986. [32]

Accolades

Cobra was nominated for six Razzie Awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Sylvester Stallone), Worst Actress (Brigitte Nielsen), Worst Supporting Actor and Worst New Star (both for Brian Thompson) and Worst Screenplay. [33]

Director Nicolas Winding Refn is a huge fan of Cobra. In Refn's cult film Drive the main character has a toothpick in his mouth in some scenes; this is Refn's homage to the opening scene where Stallone has a matchstick in his mouth. The main star of the film, Ryan Gosling, also said in interview that he is a fan of Stallone and Cobra which is why he "borrowed" his character's toothpick habit from Cobra. [34]

Other media

Video game

In 1986, the film was made into a video game by Ocean Software for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and Amstrad CPC. [35]

Aborted sequel and TV series

In 1987, Cannon Films, along with Warner Bros. attempted to make a sequel, Cobra Part II, but the film never materialized. [36]

In 2019, a television series was in development with Robert Rodriguez serving as director/creator. [37] [38] As of 2023, it is not known if this project is still in development.

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