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Mary Versus the Movies

Episode 84 - Cobra (1986)

Broadcast on:
05 Jan 2023

What do you do when you're one of the world's biggest movie stars and the lead in two franchies? Well, if you're Sylvester Stallone, you make one of the more eccentric exercizes in copaganda, Cobra, a barely-coherent thriller with few thrills but a lot of baffling choices. Why do we have a serial killer and a cult? Why is Nielsen dancing with a robot pimp? What in the name of God did he do to that pizza? This is a film that is both very good and very bad--in other words, it's a Cannon Group feature. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, and Brian Thompson, and directed? by George Cosmatos.