Discover the Cobra Movie Poster, the iconic 80s action movie starring Sylvester Stallone. Dive into a world of violence and revenge with a lone hero willing to do anything to save his city. Order the poster to relive the film’s high-octane atmosphere and retro aesthetic at home. A collector’s item for vintage cinema fans.
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- High UV resistance.
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Description of this True Romance Poster
Cobra is a 1986 American action film directed by George P. Cosmatos and written by Sylvester Stallone, who also stars in the title role. Reni Santoni, Brigitte Nielsen, and Andrew Robinson also star in the film. The film is loosely based on Paula Gosling’s novel A Running Duck, which was later filmed as Fair Game in 1995. However, Stallone’s script was originally conceived from ideas he had during preproduction on Beverly Hills Cop, which he heavily revised. He wanted to make Beverly Hills Cop less of a comedy and more of an action film, which the studio rejected as being far too expensive. When he left the project, Eddie Murphy was hired to play the lead role.
The film received generally negative reviews, most of which focused on its overuse of genre tropes and excessive violence. It debuted at number one at the U.S. box office and grossed $49 million in the U.S. and a total of $160 million worldwide. It is now considered a cult classic.
After negotiations between a lone gunman and law enforcement fail during a hostage situation at a Los Angeles supermarket, the LAPD summons Lieutenant Marion Cobretti (Stallone), a member of their elite division known as the “Zombie Squad.” Cobretti, codenamed “Cobra,” infiltrates the store, locates, and negotiates with the shooter, who threatens him with talk of a vague and unknown organization known as “The New World,” a supremacist group of Social Darwinist radicals who despise modern society and believe in killing the weak to leave only the strongest and most intelligent to rule the world. Cobretti then kills the shooter by throwing a knife into his abdomen and then shooting him. As the hostages and bodies are removed from the store, Cobretti is chastised by Detective Monte (Robinson) for his apparent disregard for police procedures and protocols. Harassed by reporters, Cobretti criticizes them for not prioritizing the safety of potential victims. At the time, little does anyone realize that the supermarket hostage situation is just one of many recent and seemingly unrelated acts of violence and murder in Los Angeles by the same white supremacist group mentioned by the supermarket shooter.
Ingrid Knudsen (Nielsen), a model and businesswoman, becomes a priority target of the New World after witnessing the killing spree of its members and its leader, identified only as “The Night Slasher” (Thompson). She is placed under the protection of Cobretti and his partner, Sergeant Tony Gonzales (Santoni), after a failed attempt on her life. When several other assassination attempts by various people connected to the New World fail, Cobretti theorizes that there is an entire army of killers operating with the same modus operandi rather than a lone serial killer with a few associates, but his suggestion is dismissed by his superiors. However, the LAPD agrees with Cobretti that it would be safer for him and Knudsen to leave the city.
Shortly after venturing into the countryside, Cobretti develops a romantic relationship with Ingrid, but Nancy Stalk (Garlington), the New World’s second-in-command and right-hand woman, infiltrates the police team escorting Cobretti’s group and compromises their location. Despite Cobretti’s suspicions and distrust of Nancy, he does nothing, and the party spends the night at a motel. At dawn, the organization moves into the small town and lays siege to it. Barely time to react, the attackers storm the motel, wounding Gonzales in the process. Cobretti and Ingrid flee in a van, after killing several members of the organization and watching others invade the town. With the van badly damaged in the chase, the duo flee through a grapefruit grove to a nearby factory.
Cobretti has defeated most of the New World members by this point, and the few remaining members follow them into the building. Cobretti eliminates all the members, and the Night Slasher accidentally shoots Nancy, leaving only himself. Cobretti and the Night Slasher engage in a vicious melee inside the steel mill, which ends with the latter being impaled in the back by a large walking hook, which transports him into a furnace that burns him alive.
In the aftermath, the LAPD arrives and begins clearing the city, providing medical aid to Gonzales. Inspector Monte appears to apologize, but he confronts Cobretti again about his lack of respect for police protocol, offering to discuss the matter over a long dinner. Cobretti punches Monte instead, before leaving with Ingrid on one of the motorcycles left behind by the New World.