Cobra (1986)

"You're the disease, and I'm the cure."
Marion "Cobra" Cobretti (Sylvester Stallone) are the police's unofficial exterminator, as he always manages to get job done, no matter how dirty it is and his latest task is to use every means possible to wipe out and end the brutal and murdering regime set out by the new, sadistic leader of the New World Order, and who is only known by the name of The Night Slasher (Brian Thompson).
But things take a sudden turn when a beautiful, young model gets involved through an accident, and Cobretti has to step in and make sure that the only living witness of seeing The Night Slasher stays alive for the next few hours, as they have unwillingly become The Night Slasher's top priority.

Sly's best action film of the 80s, and certainly his most badass effort. As a kid The Night Slasher was frightening as hell, even though the whole "axe-clanking" part at their meetings was kind of silly, he was a much more scary looking villain than most of that era's horror movie baddies.
Brian Thompson really did well on this one, and should have gotten more villain roles but I guess trying to top this one would be impossible.

Sly is a mean son of a bitch as Lt. Marion Cobretti (has to be with a first name like that), and comes of as a bit of Dirty Harry and partly Paul Kersey, and all total badass, and that poster is obviously a little nod to The Terminator poster, (I love these 80s action poster). Brigitte Nielsen might not have been a great actress, (but who cares about that, right?) as the danish babe have never looked better than she does here. The whole movie oozes 1980s with neon lights, synthesizers, cheesy but awesome soundtrack and you even got some robots thrown in there too.
Screw the critics, this is one great action film from the very start and up till the ending. You got fantastic car chases, action scenes, and Sly gunning down scum left to right to make sure that Cobra stands among as one of the best and most enjoyable action films of the 1980s.