I love this movie so much

The Worst Film Ever

Absolutely Brilliant!

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

While "The Glimmer Man" isn't any outstanding action movie, I will say that it is still worth watching if you enjoy Steven Seagal movies. That being said, then it should also be said that it is a fairly average Seagal movie in every sense of the phrase. It is one of those mass produced action movies that most action stars tend to settle into doing, you know finding a formula that works and milking it beyond dry.Story-wise then "The Glimmer Man" is your stereotypical Seagal movie. Yep, he is an ex-something-something now turned law man and taking on the seedy underworld singlehandedly.You know what you get here; the usual Seagal martial arts, wits and punchlines. Yes, it is all here, and the obligatory broken arm as well. And true to most other Seagal movies he is untouchable, except for a single blow that gets through and strikes him. Indeed, business as usual.Having Seagal act opposite Keenen Ivory Wayans, well I had some initial reservation to this, as I thought it would be comedy in the trademark Wayans fashion. But luckily Keenen proved to surprise and did actual acting and no do comedy."The Glimmer Man" is enjoyable enough for what it is, and bear in mind that it is a Seagal movie after all.

The Glimmer Man is a little gem, and it's unlike, any other film our bad lead has done. And that's a cool quality about this must see action action vehicle, with a much interesting plot set around the more than one killer scenario, though it's Steve, again doing more physical damage to other humans. Seagal, a cop of course, is assigned to a a great sidekick and co star, Keenon Ivory Wayans (really, you couldn't got a better duo and they work off each other) where they investigate these ritualistic murders, where there's more to it, but I'm not gonna spoil it. Seagal's past just comes back to haunt him, and when his ex wife are killed. Of course, here it becomes personal, but Seagal's character shows much more restraint, somehow, until the revenge finale at the end, where Seagal squaring off, with that tall lanky, bad dude, provides one of the best revenge moments ever encountered, where I'd probably say it's my favorite. If you're a Seagal action fan, and you haven't seen this, you need a good walloping. It has thrilling action and humor. In the acting stakes, Seagal is really surpassed this time by real thespians, (Brian Cox and Bob Gunton) where Wayons is pretty good too. Don't miss this one on any account. I wish they'd really make credit/bank cards like that. Robberies would really go down.

Film Synopsis: Los Angeles is rocked by a serial killer known as the "Family Man", slaughtering entire families & placing their bodies in crucifixion poses. Jim Campbell, the investigating detective on the case, is paired with Jack Cole, a mysterious detective who wears Tibetan prayer beads, has formidable martial arts skills & acts a bit weird. When the Family Man's latest victim turns out to be Cole's ex-wife, Campbell faces the possibility that Cole might be the killer.The Review: When David Fincher's dark masterpiece SE7EN came out in the mid-1990s, it spawned a number of films featuring fiendishly clever serial killers trying to highlight the flaws of society by killing people. The Glimmer Man owes a fair amount to Se7en with its killer trying to save people by turning them into martyrs.At least for the first hour, anyway. What we have here is a film that is actually a routine action film disguised as a buddy cop flick disguised as a serial killer film. This dishonesty is really quite insulting to the intelligence of the viewers & fans of Fincher's film. The Glimmer Man uses the serial killer angle of the plot to mask a standard CIA conspiracy plot with an arms dealer sending his top assassin to terminate some witnesses to his latest arms deal, covering his tracks by disguising the executions as the work of the serial killer.The other main problem with The Glimmer Man is the fact that it is a Steven Seagal film. Steven Seagal is a martial artist who came to fame in the late 80s actioner ABOVE THE LAW, starring in films such as HARD TO KILL, MARKED FOR DEATH, OUT FOR JUSTICE & his all-time best work, UNDER SIEGE. Seagal's films are almost always extremely violent action films with really sadistic aikido moves courtesy of Seagal. Here he engages in some of his famed aikido skills, catapulting CIA goons through walls in a restaurant; as well as displaying a good dose of sadism – he takes on Russian gangsters with a knife disguised as a credit card; interrogates his old boss by shooting him in his hands & feet; & propels the arms dealer's son through a window.The Glimmer Man tries to balance the sadism with some humour, most notably in the partnership between Seagal & Keenen Ivory Wayans. But this fails mainly due to the fact that they obviously can't stand each other – Wayans' idea of comedy is to make unwholesome remarks about people behind their backs & inserting a running joke about him quaffing some powdered deer genitals, which is quite painful to watch. Seagal fares better in the comedy stakes, delivering some amusing one-liners.As far as acting goes, the cast are mostly competent. Besides Wayans, the only other actor to stumble is Brian Cox, who goes through the film with a campy performance that doesn't suit him.

Not really a very insightful movie that one can study for hours and think about a lot. Rather this is more of a typical Hollywood action movie. Cops are partnered in regards to opposing personalities (which I love because when done properly, especially in this movie, it creates a really relaxed atmosphere), cars blow up at the sightest touch, and the hero runs around killing heaps of people and blowing up heaps of buildings and the captain at the end says, "Cole, I owe you an apology." Cole (Steven Segal) is playing his usual ex-special forces come cop or something role. Almost the same role that he played in Under Siege and On Deadly Ground (and no doubt numerous other movies before and after). As is typical, Steven Segal will encounter a horde of bad guys and he will typically beat them all up single handedly, and then walk out of the room dusting himself off.The plot is interesting though. Segal is a cop that hunts down serial killers, but has a rather sordid past: not only is it somewhat unknown, his recent past in regards to tracking down serial killers is tainted for he shot one when on a roof of a building in New York and there were no witnesses. Now he is in Los Angeles and a serial killer is attacking again, but this time there some one is going around killing people and using the serial killer to cover his tracks. As one delves in deeper, one uncovers a plot involving the Russian mafia.Once again, as it typical of a Steven Segal movie, there is lots of action and lots of martial arts. That alone would have been quite boring; one sees cars and petrol tankers blowing up every time one turns on the television. What made this movie cool was the backchat between the partners.