Yeah, I thought the movie was pretty bad too. I saw it on HBO back when it first came to the cable movie channels, and I thought it was awful. Something went seriously wrong with Stallone in the eighties. In the seventies, he wrote Rocky, and it was one of the best movies of all time about heart and determination and the triumph of the human spirit. And then in the 80s we got Rocky IV, which was comic book politics and the dreaded grey-suited commies. He starred in First Blood, which was story about how society badly mistreated a heavily damaged Vietnam vet, and in Rambo II and III, he turns this pathos-laden character into Superman with a mullet. And in this movie, he ratcheted up every clichéd action movie trope there was.
And the funny thing is, this is basically Stallone's version of Beverly Hills Cop. He was briefly tapped for the role of Axel Foley, and he heavily rewrote the script, and changed the character's name to Axel Cobretti (same last name as the hero of this movie). Thankfully, the producers of Beverly Hills Cop parted ways with Stallone and hired Eddie Murphy. Stallone went on and tweaked his Beverly Hills Cop script to make Cobra. Beverly Hills Cop went on to become one of the best movies of the 80s. Cobra has deservedly gone on to become a little remembered Stallone movie from back then. It just wasn't a good movie. At all.
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