Black Cobra 3: The Manila Connection (1990)

Robert "Black Cobra" Malone is back!

Malone (Fred Williamson) travels to Philippines to help out his friend's son on an investigation of stolen weapons. Bad guys seems to know their every step. Is there a traitor in their ranks?

I think that this one was little better than the second Black Cobra movie, although there is a same problem with this one: action wise the middle section of the film is pretty lame. But then again, the grande finale where they blow up the enemy base is just damn awesome. This time the slow motion explosions are in the right place.

Directed by Edoardo Margheriti. On "Antonio Margheriti .com" (Edoardo's father) there is a couple of Edoardo's comments about this film. He says that Black Cobra 3 wasn't even properly completed due to market crisis in 1990...

There is also 4th installment in Black Cobra series, but what i have read from Internet reviews it is total piece of celluloid waste. What i gather this celluloid Frankenstein's monster is parsed together with scenes taken from the first Black Cobra film (scenes with Fred Williamson) that are incorporated with some new footage. Sounds like a winner...

Black Cobra 2, The (1990)

Detective Malone (Fred Williamson) shoots a bad guy who has taken a woman as a hostage. His boss totally flips out for his irresponsible behavior, telling him that he is tired of sorting out the mess Malone always causes. Malone is sent to Manila, Philippines to work with the Interpol.

While on airport his wallet is stolen by a small time crook. Malone pays the crook a visit but finds him murdered. Before his death he has send a package to his daughter and now the bad guys are after the girl. Malone can't figure out what was so important in the package.

Good amount of action in the beginning and in the end. The middle part was bit boring, they could have trimmed easily 10 minutes from the middle of the film. Fred Williamson does once again a good job as an aging cop. Maybe his knees were totally busted for real from his American football days, because in some scenes it looked like he had hard time for real to get up on his knees.

Directed by Edoardo Margheriti, who also directed the 3rd Black Cobra movie.