10 Movie Ripoffs Better Than The Original

1991's action flick Stone Cold may have been critically and commercially unsuccessful upon release, but it's endured as something of a perverse cult classic, with many coming to appreciate how over-the-top and almost laughably testosterone-fuelled it is.

It might ultimately be more apt to call Stone Cold a parody of the Sly Stallone-starring 1986 actioner Cobra rather than a mere ripoff, given that it opens with a near-identical action sequence in which our similarly-attired hero - played here by American football star Brian Bosworth in his debut - saves a supermarket from shotgun-totting baddies.

Both films revolve around a badass cop who takes on a local gang - not the most original idea, granted - but the key difference is that Stone Cold takes itself a lot less seriously than Cobra. Cobra is certainly an entertaining blunt object of a movie in its own right, but Stone Cold refines its formula into something more giddily enjoyable. Also, it's got Lance Henriksen and William Forsythe playing a**hole bikers, which is basically impossible to compete with.