The body count is only somewhere in the high eighties -- and most of these are simply gunned down with a deplorable lack of invention.
– ,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
rotten:
The film trades on the same technique used by books that attack pornography by printing examples of the dirty pictures. Cobra pretends to be against the wanton violence of a disintegrating society, but it's really the apotheosis of that violence.
– Nina Darnton,
New York Times,
21 May 2003
rotten:
It's fast-paced and full of gaudy action, yet it's thoroughly unsatisfying, largely because it's so lazy.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
6 May 2008
fresh:
Cobra is a sleek, extremely violent and exciting police thriller.