An average movie

I already saw this movie but since it was a while back, I thought I might as well check it out again. Well, eventually, the damned thing  wasn’t as bad as I remembered but it was still seriously weak though. Basically, I have to admit that Cobra himself, some kind of 80’s version of Dirty Harry on steroids, was actually pretty badass but, unfortunately, nothing else in this movie did work though. In fact, Stallone did write the screenplay and, basically, even directed the damned thing himself (Cosmatos was credited as the director but he didn’t have much input after all) so I guess we should blame Stallone for the end-result. On the other hand, they apparently did cut off many scenes to make the damned thing shorter but I doubt that a longer version would have been such an improvement. Anyway, as a result, the plot was fairly idiotic. It was above all quite ridiculous how the main character was blamed by his colleagues when, each time, he did get some of the bad guys which should be proof enough that something major was going on. There was also not a single moment during which they took a breath to explain what was the deal with this army of psychopaths. I probably shouldn't take it too seriously but it's just that the whole thing was so damned boring, it was just hard to care about the damned thing. Back in those days, they still believed that Brigitte Nielsen could become a major movie-star and she was still married with Stallone at that time but they didn’t have much chemistry, I’m afraid. Anyway, to conclude, even though the main character was quite charismatic and had some potential, I thought it was a rather lame movie and I don’t think it is really worth a look, except if you really like the genre.


5/10