12 Ridiculously Macho Movies You Must See

Cobra’s story started life as a proposed script, heavily rewritten by Stallone, for Beverley Hills Cop. Luckily, the studio rejected it and made arguably Eddie Murphy’s finest movie. Stallone on the other hand took his idea forward and eventually this became the mighty Cobra – a Golan-Globus juggernaut from Cannon which is high on bullets and low on quality dialogue.

Stallone plays Marion Cobretti, a hard as nails cop, a lone wolf, and specialist in dealing with psychopaths that regular law enforcement can’t handle. The city is being terrorised by a cultist gang of psychopaths, led by the terrifying killer known as the Night Slasher (look out for his very memorable knife). When Brigitte Nielsen’s model, Ingrid, witnesses the killers in action, only Cobra is up to the job of stopping them whilst protecting his real-life wife.

Whilst it is an extremely predictable narrative, it has a number of elements which certainly set it apart from the other genre examples of the time. Performances across the cast are better than expected and the general viciousness of the killings and antagonists give the film a much harder edge than similar movies.