Cobra (1986)
Directed by George P. Cosmatos
A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.
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Instead, Cosmatos (son of the late George P. Cosmatos, who directed Tombstone and Cobra) goes for a weirdo, groovy, far-out vibe.
Kraven the Hunter is an atavistic reminder of Cannon films. Once upon a time, their cornucopia of loveable low-quality movies — Bloodsport (1988), Cobra (1986), and the Chuck Norris Delta Force franchise to name a few — planned to welcome a James Cameron directed Spider-man picture into their midst.
For Panos (whose father George P. Cosmatos directed Cobra, Rambo: First Blood Part II & Tombstone) it is the year he was first exposed to the cluttered shelves of his local VHS rental store and the delights that lay within.
The filmmaker’s father, George P. Cosmatos, was also a film director, best known for Rambo: First Blood Part II and Cobra , both starred by Sylvester Stallone.
(The last one is a family business; his father, the late George P. Cosmatos, directed Cobra and Rambo: First Blood Part II .)
These films were legendary, from Rambo (1982) to Commando (1985) and Lethal Weapon (1987), Cobra (1986) and Action Jackson (1988), and, of course, Predator.
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Stallone was a leading figure in the 1980s action arena: firstly Rocky Balboa, then John Rambo, Mario Cobretti (in George P. Cosmatos’ Cobra, 1986) and finally Ray Tango (in Andrei Konchalovski’s Tango and Cash, 1989).
But Stallone was always better loved in those guises than in generic action work, and this film ranks very low on a resume that includes such detritus as “Cobra,” “Tango & Cash” and “Assassins.”
Jay Leno put it best in 1986: “I see Stallone’s new movie’s out, Cobra.
You'd never believe "The Expendables" was made by a man who's been in movies for 40 years (admittedly including such horrors as "Cobra" and "Over the Top") -- and directing them since 1978.