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Film Review - Cobra
5 years ago
Review written in the first week of January, but the film was watched Christmas day.
When I reviewed Invasion USA, I complained that there wasn’t much Christmas in it. Little did I know that it was a bounty of Christmas compared to Cobra. So let’s get this out of the way first. There’s some decorations in a shop, a Toys R Us ad on TV that I’m sure is nostalgic to someone, and a man in a Santa outfit dives out the way during a car chase. This feels less like a Christmas film, and more a film that happened to be filmed in early December. As such, this is only a Christmas film by technicality. Maybe that’s enough, I don’t know.
Anyway, the plot.
The film opens reading off crime statistics in a way that reminds me of Tank Police. Then we get an action scene where the titular hero saves a shop from a mass shooter.
The actual plot is a string of murders in the city. The eggheads have no idea who’s doing this and why, so the reluctantly allow Cobra to help.
Meanwhile, a woman drives by what she thinks is a broken down car, when in fact it’s one of the murders in progress. Having seen the face of one of the killers. The killers are a mad cult that likes hanging out in an abandoned warehouse banging axes together. Don’t judge, everyone needs a hobby.
The rest of the film is basically a Terminator esc escort quest, only it’s a sunglasses wearing cop vs a cult instead of future man vs a robot. The woman uses a good deal of common sense and actually listens to advice from Cobra. I struggle to think to think of anyone that acts particularly stupid throughout the film.
The only part I didn’t much care for was a scene at the end where it takes a sharp turn into social commentary and fails, trying to make a point about how bad guys get arrested then immediately released, before killing the villain in over the top action movie fashion.
When I started watching this film, people were saying it’s a bad film, but I liked it unironically. It’s a decent action film. It’s well paced, the action is good, and it has the budget to do the plot justice. Whereas Invasion USA felt off, Cobra delivers the action goods.
When I reviewed Invasion USA, I complained that there wasn’t much Christmas in it. Little did I know that it was a bounty of Christmas compared to Cobra. So let’s get this out of the way first. There’s some decorations in a shop, a Toys R Us ad on TV that I’m sure is nostalgic to someone, and a man in a Santa outfit dives out the way during a car chase. This feels less like a Christmas film, and more a film that happened to be filmed in early December. As such, this is only a Christmas film by technicality. Maybe that’s enough, I don’t know.
Anyway, the plot.
The film opens reading off crime statistics in a way that reminds me of Tank Police. Then we get an action scene where the titular hero saves a shop from a mass shooter.
The actual plot is a string of murders in the city. The eggheads have no idea who’s doing this and why, so the reluctantly allow Cobra to help.
Meanwhile, a woman drives by what she thinks is a broken down car, when in fact it’s one of the murders in progress. Having seen the face of one of the killers. The killers are a mad cult that likes hanging out in an abandoned warehouse banging axes together. Don’t judge, everyone needs a hobby.
The rest of the film is basically a Terminator esc escort quest, only it’s a sunglasses wearing cop vs a cult instead of future man vs a robot. The woman uses a good deal of common sense and actually listens to advice from Cobra. I struggle to think to think of anyone that acts particularly stupid throughout the film.
The only part I didn’t much care for was a scene at the end where it takes a sharp turn into social commentary and fails, trying to make a point about how bad guys get arrested then immediately released, before killing the villain in over the top action movie fashion.
When I started watching this film, people were saying it’s a bad film, but I liked it unironically. It’s a decent action film. It’s well paced, the action is good, and it has the budget to do the plot justice. Whereas Invasion USA felt off, Cobra delivers the action goods.
