Review of Cobra

I love the villains in this film. They seem to have no motivation whatsoever other than being murderers. There's something about a New Order with quasi-religious stuff going on, but somehow it doesn't quite jibe with their main job of killing people at random. It would be different if they were some sort of thrill kill cult, but no one seems to be having much fun. I guess one joins these guys, is issued a machine gun and a motorcycle, yells at some sweaty leader, and then drives around in a van holding people down for from guy called slasher to kill. When Stallone shows up they drive into his bullets like lemmings. The incompetence of the directing makes it look like they're doing it deliberately. Never have anonymous villains had so little dignity in death. (Except maybe for the storm troopers who got their butts whupped by Ewoks.) The villains are almost abstract in their devotion to being part of the carnage at the end.

The rest of the movie is not as remarkable in any way. It's yet another action movie where the hero has to assault an enemy base/stronghold/hideout to extract the babe who got nabbed. This one has a Dirty Harry character.