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Cobra (Franco Nero) was once the top FBI agent, but then he was
framed by a drug kingpin called Kandinsky (Michele Soavi), was dropped by
his superiors, and was sent to jail for three years. Nowadays he runs a
private investigations agency in San Francisco and is trying to leave the
past behind ... until his former boss Goldsmith (William Berger) shows up
at his office with a new assignement that would send him to Italy to work
on a case that would allow him to finally have his revenge on Kandinsky.
However, the case is much more complex than Cobra would have
thought at first, as it does not only involve Kandinsky - who ever so
often refrains from killing Cobra and insists he is not the culprit in the
whole affair, but also Kandinsky's transvestite boyfriend Ivan/Lola
(Licinia Lentini), a beautiful blonde named Brenda (Sybil Danning) Cobra
even falls in love with, Papasian (Mickey Knox), Cobra's Italian contact
who eventually turns out to be a drug kingpin, and Papasian's bodyguard
Martino (Ennio Girolami), and nobody in the whole game seems to be who he
is, and everybody is trying to track down two keys that seem to present
the riddle's solution. After much to and fro, Kandinsky is pronounced dead
but is actually only using his death as a cover-up, Brenda kills
Ivan/Lola, Cobra's own son (Carlo Gabriel Sparanero, Franco Nero's real
life son) is killed in a kidnapping attempt, Papasian is killed, even
Kandinsky turns up dead (for real), and ultimately, it seems that Martino
is the one who pulls the strings in the background ... but ultimately,
Cobra takes care of him, only to fing out that Brenda has turned on him as
well, and ultimately he has to shoot her in self defense. But even Brenda
is not the mastermind behind the whole scheme, the real baddie is actually
Cobra's own superior Goldsmith - whom cobra shoots in cold blood in the
final scene thinking about all the people who had to lose their lives
because of his little game, including his son and Brenda.
Il Giorno del Cobra is not Enzo G.Castellari's best film, it is
just a tad too unreflected in its presentation of Franco Nero as the
supercop who's always right, and it by and large lacks Castellari's
speciality, elaborate action setpieces. But that said, Il Giorno del
Cobra is still pretty good, sure it's a rather mindless action flick
with a script that manages to be over-convoluted and overly
straightforward at the same time, but Castellari's directorial effort is
incredibly competent and compact, he manages to get the best out of even
run-of-the-mill action scenes, manages to create suspense aplenty and
manages to keep things moving at a steady pace. And of course, Franco
Nero's performance as Cobra, two-dimensional as the character might be, is
flawless.
Recommended.
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