Very well executed

One of my all time favorites.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Kyle Connors (The Dragon) is an Interpol agent who is somewhat on the edge. During a "night at the museum" bust where he and his partner are planning to take down some baddies, Connors' partner is killed thanks to the unadulterated evil of Davaad (Lurie). In a quest for vengeance, Connors travels to India because that's where he believes Davaad and his evil empire are located. While Davaad is your classic monosyllabic meathead, he somehow controls a squadron of Indian doctors and scientists who are working on a code to decrypt anything on any computer, ever. Meanwhile, Connors has his hands full not just fighting goons, but with two mysterious women: Callista Sinclair (McClure) who is supposedly some kind of British special agent, and Shalimar (Bhatnagar), an Indian beauty as stunning as the Soul Train act from whence she was named. But who can he trust? With twists and turns aplenty, it's going to take everything Connors has got to tame this Cobra...Operation Cobra is an amusing Don The Dragon romp that doesn't take itself too seriously or go on too long. It provides light thrills and is pretty enjoyable, with all the classic clichés we've come to sink into like a warm bath. While it does involve "The Disc" (something that characters in these B movies always seem to be searching for), and features many dumb moments that act as glue that holds the story together between action scenes (which luckily are plentiful), the fact that the movie is set in India provides interesting and different atmosphere. Director Fred Olen Ray's long career is spotty at best, but this proves to be the best action effort we've seen from him to date.This is a good role for Don, as it puts him in a James Bond-like adventurer role. Perhaps a lot of the aforementioned dumbness is a by-product of having Evan Lurie be the main bad guy. That's not a slam on Lurie, we definitely love his work (if we didn't, how do you explain the fact that we've seen more of his movies than perhaps anyone on the planet?) but come on. The guy's head simply oozes meat maybe more than anyone else who appeared in 90's DTV's on a regular basis. That said, his jumping ability is pretty impressive in this particular outing. Perhaps his being a solid meathead gives him better equilibrium than other humans. As if the fight between Evan and Don wasn't enough for you in Ring of Fire II (1993), here they go for a second round. So many DTV personalities fight each other numerous times, but there are combinations that never happened. How about a fight between Don The Dragon and Lorenzo Lamas? Or maybe Evan Lurie and Matthias Hues? Or we could get really crazy and dream up Harrison Muller Jr. Vs. Ron Marchini. The combinations are truly endless...Besides trying to find "The Disc" and characters being Ex-Marines, another staple that we love to see is the club scene. We both love the 70's-80's-90's discotheque and the one here is a real winner, thanks to some outstanding background dancers. Watch out for it.In the final analysis, Operation Cobra might be one of the better Don outings out there. It balances the dumb with the slightly-less-dumb in a nice way and we don't have too many complaints.

"Operation Cobra" brings together several people long associated with cinematic schlock. Ashok Amritraj and Andrew Stevens were producers, Roger Corman was the executive producer, and Fred Olen Ray was the director! Needless to say, the budget is low, though since the movie was shot in India - which is a pretty cheap place to shoot a movie - the cheapness is less evident than usual. And the Indian locations do give the movie an exotic feel at times. Unfortunately, there's not much else positive I can say about this movie. The story is confusing at times, with information and key scenes seemingly missing at times. And the martial arts sequences are done in the typically boring American fashion - someone does a move, cut to another angle, another move is made, cut to another angle etc. But the movie's biggest flaw is that it's more often than not dull to watch. Even if you see this movie for free, chances are you'll feel ripped off at the end.

After watching this movie, I looked at some other works of Fred Olen Ray's on IMDb. This is one of his better ones - but that's not saying very much. This is an action movie, deficient in many respects. The acting is poor. There are three unnecessary (and not particularly erotic) sex scenes chucked in - just to pad the movie out, perhaps. Second-rate action meets third-rate martial arts - Don 'The Dragon' Wilson has a nerve calling himself that. The plot, such as it is, doesn't make much sense, with several huge coincidences. There are funny things too, like the inept henchmen, and when (not a spoiler) a Western woman wears a black wig and a sari to look Indian (she doesn't).By all means see it, if you really have nothing else to do.

It kind of had different actors wearing different wigs playing different parts through out the movie, it was quite distracting to watch, I would not recomend this movie to anyone really as most of the acting was very shoddy and the main action seemed to consist of the main actor pulling a gun (from only knows where) and letting off several shots then somehow managing to take home several women in one night. st33z - -