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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Steven Seagal | ... | Lt. Jack Cole | |
| Keenen Ivory Wayans | ... | Det. Jim Campbell | |
| Bob Gunton | ... | Frank Deverell | |
| Brian Cox | ... | Mr. Smith | |
| John M. Jackson | ... | Donald Cunningham | |
| Michelle Johnson | ... | Jessica Cole | |
| Stephen Tobolowsky | ... | Christopher Maynard | |
| Peter Jason | ... | Millie's Father | |
| Ryan Cutrona | ... | Capt. Harris | |
| Richard Gant | ... | Det. Roden | |
| Johnny Strong | ... | Johnny Deverell | |
| Robert Mailhouse | ... | Smith's Bodyguard | |
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Jesse Stock | ... | Cole's Son |
| Alexa PenaVega | ... | Cole's Daughter (as Alexa Vega) | |
| Nikki Cox | ... | Millie | |
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Jack Cole is a soft spoken, mystical, new age New York cop with a checkered past. He is transferred to Los Angeles to help Los Angeles cop Jim Campbell solve a series of brutal murders in which the victims are crucified. The murders that have happened since Jack arrived in Los Angeles just don't sit right with him. When the killer, known as the "Family Man", kills Ellen DunLeavy, who happens to be Jack's ex wife and the mother of his two kids, and Ellen's husband Andrew DunLeavy, it becomes personal - especially when Jack's prints are found on Ellen's body. Jack meets with his military mentor Smith, not knowing that Smith is in cahoots with local crime boss Frank Deverell. Written by Todd Baldridge <sandib@eastky.com>
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Two good cops. One bad situation.Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
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4 October 1996 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$45,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$7,605,504, 6 October 1996, Wide ReleaseGross USA:
$20,100,000Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$16,000,000Company Credits
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Written by Steven Seagal and Todd Smallwood
Performed by The Jeff Healey Band
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording
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When Donald gets thrown through a window barred with heavy iron fencing, the iron clearly wobbles, as if made of rubber. See more »Quotes
Mr. Smith: Suffice to say, to the people he hunted for us, he was known as the Glimmer Man. There'd be nothing but jungle, then a glimmer... Then you'd be dead!See more »
Alternate Versions
Airings on cable station TBS include two additional scenes not seen in the theatrical version or on home video/DVD. The first scene has Campbell visiting Jessica Cole at work, where he informs her about Jack being suspended and a suspect in the Dunleavy murders. The second scene (which follows immediately afterward) has Jessica returning home and confronting Jack about the news he was suspended, and they have a brief argument. Both occur after the scene where Cole and Capt. Harris talk in the bathroom following the polygraph questioning. See more »Soundtracks
BulletproofWritten by Steven Seagal and Todd Smallwood
Performed by The Jeff Healey Band
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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.