Cobra 1986

Nina Darnton, New York Times: The film trades on the same technique used by books that attack pornography by printing examples of the dirty pictures. Cobra pretends to be against the wanton violence of a disintegrating society, but it's really the apotheosis of that violence. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: It's fast-paced and full of gaudy action, yet it's thoroughly unsatisfying, largely because it's so lazy. Read more

Time Out: The body count is only somewhere in the high eighties -- and most of these are simply gunned down with a deplorable lack of invention. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Cobra is a sleek, extremely violent and exciting police thriller. Read more