I love a good action movie, but i prefer not being able to anticipate every development in the story. Without surprising twists, the mere accumulation of dead bodies lacks interest. This is the main fault of the movie, plus the bad guys are implausible (you never understand their motives, this is a very poor comprehension of the criminal mind, an ideologically misguided view of it as an innate -non social- psychopathy). On the other hand, this film bears a message which is too transparent to be effective (not to speak of its primitiveness). Stallone keeps repeating throughout the movie things like "Hell, without human rights and rules to follow, my job would be much easier". The thing is that he repeats it over and over, so it becomes annoying, it's like right-wing propaganda for dummies (other movies are right-wing propaganda for not-so-dummies), and on top of that, the obligatory pretty-girl-to-rescue says "Yeah, you're right, i can't believe what the judges do!" etc etc (like US hadn't the largest population of inmates by far). If you see the movie you'll find many other stereotypes, like the guy who is a law-abiding cop, who of course looks weak and wears glasses... the "latinos" being submitted by the mighty Stallone who conquers a parking spot... After all this, you may believe my own ideology is blocking my enjoyment of Cobra, but that's not the case, i have enjoyed Dirty Harry and other such movies, without indignation.
