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  Action-filled 'Glimmer' is trademark Seagal
According to the credits, "The Glimmer Man" was directed by John Gray; yet, as everyone knows, Steven Seagal is the true auteur of his films.
This is probably why "The Glimmer Man" looks no different than Seagal's past films, no matter who the director was (even Seagal himself, in the case of "On Deadly Ground").
When all is said and done, "The Glimmer Man" is by no means an artistic masterpiece, but it is easily the most entertaining film you will see this season.
www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V129/N28/02-glimmer.28d.html   (784 words)

  
  Glimmer Man
The Glimmer Man is a 1996 action film in which a detective has to find a serial killer, and uncovers a dastardly conspiracy.
Supposedly, the detective is so fast that his targets only see a glimmer of him before they're caught.
The film stars Steven Seagal (as "Glimmer Man" Jack Cole), Bob Gunton[?], Brian Cox[?], Michelle Johnson[?], Keenan Ivory Wayans[?], Johnny Strong[?], and Ryan Cutrona[?].
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 The Glimmer Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Glimmer Man is a 1996 action film, directed by John Gray.
One of the first strikes of the Family Man after Cole's arrival is the murder of Ellen Dunleavy, Jack's ex-wife.
The Brian Cox character was originally intended for Tommy Lee Jones, and Jones was attached to the film before leaving shortly before filming again.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Glimmer_Man   (268 words)

  
 AikiWeb Aikido Forums - Hard to kill vs. The Glimmer man vs. Fire down below...
Glimmer Man hardly has any aikido in it, but some other karate/kung fu or whatever it is, in it.
Glimmer Man is the most entertaining film of all 3 and is also funny.
Man has a natural violent tendency and when it is too suppressed and disallowed at all times, it is more destructive then good.
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 WashingtonPost.com: 'Glimmer Man': Flash & Dashes
Add Steven Seagal and Keenen Ivory Wayans to the list of assault-and-pepper cop couples, though their debut is called "The Glimmer Man," not "The Glimmer Men." Although Seagal is the star, as might be expected in a film produced by Seagal and longtime partner Julius R. Nasso, Wayans proves a solid foil.
None of Seagal's fights are fair, of course, and he leaves a trail not unlike that in "Twister." Director John Gray, who usually does Hallmark Hall of Fame tearjerkers, concludes his first action adventure with a hyperactive shootout that owes a lot to John Woo.
The Glimmer Man is rated R for violence, gore, language and nudity.
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 The Glimmer Man: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Glimmer Man is a 1996 action film[Click link for more facts about this topic] directed by John Gray in which a detective has to find a serial killer, EHandler: no quick summary.
The Glimmer Man (Cole) supposedly got his moniker in Vietnam, EHandler: no quick summary.
Bob gunton (born november 15 1945 in santa monica, california) is an american actor who is known for his role as warden norton in the 1994 movie...
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 THE GLIMMER MAN
When his prints are found on one of the bodies, he knows it's the work of a professional and he seeks the help of his former military mentor, Mr.
A hooded man with a laser sighted gun breaks into a house at night and shoots a woman dead.
There's plenty of punching and kicking and sounds of breaking bones and a man is impaled on a bulldozer's shovel.
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 Kim Newman & Eugene Byrne Alternate History Pages
He was mildly surprised that the man who entered was in uniform, a field-grey overcoat and peaked cap with a fair amount of gold lace scrambled egg on it.
The man had gone home, pretending to be sick and had sat up all night with the telephone directory calling everyone with a Jewish-looking name and warning them to go into hiding.
The Glimmer Man was not permitted to go anywhere without his bodyguards.
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 Laramie Movie Scope: The Glimmer Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
October 6, 1996 -- "The Glimmer Man" is a by-the-numbers Hollywood action flick that's about what you would expect.
Steven Seagal, who specializes in Kung Fu flicks, plays the Glimmer Man, a former government spook who is now a cop.
Several times during the film, Seagal calls Wayans "Grasshopper," a reference to the old television series "Kung Fu." There are some funny lines in the film and the two actors work well together.
www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/old/glimerman.html   (454 words)

  
 The Glimmer Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
If so, you're in luck, because The Glimmer Man isn't half bad and actually has a rather detailed plot.
Keenen Ivory Wayans plays a homicide detective trying to solve a recent string of murders by a killer he dubs the "Family Man." Seagal, a new-agey cop with a checkered past, arrives on the scene and establishes that the killings are the work of a professional, and not a serial killer.
Unfortunately, The Glimmer Man falls apart in the last half-hour, when director John Gray has the bad guys quickly explain everything so he can move on to a gory and mundane slugfest.
www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/movies/reviews/10-10-96/THE_GLIMMER_MAN.html   (219 words)

  
 The Glimmer Man DVD - Michael Weise Productions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
One of the more humorous moments include the main villain threatening Seagal in a police station packed with officers, of all places, and Master Steven responding to this by telling the foe to get his 'ugly white a$$' out of the station.
This unprecedented outburst of racial indignation is amusing if at all for the fact that Seagal himself is a white man. Just unreal.
Oh yes, and he has a fl partner, a situation that seems to be the norm in Seagal films.
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 The Glimmer Man - Movie Commentary by Scott Ventura (FeedMyEgo.com)
The story begins with some horrible murders that are either a twisted serial killer or a professional hit man using the ritual as a disguise.
Seagal's character is known as "the glimmer man" because his victims (during his special covert ops days) would see a glimmer, and then be dead.
Nobody else would be around, which makes me wonder who hears about the glimmer to pass the nickname on.
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 The Glimmer Man
Cole and Campbell have to set aside their differences when they're assigned to track down a serial killer the press has dubbed "The Family Man," for his habit of dispatching entire households at once.
However, when the Family Man's latest victims turn out to be Cole's former wife and her current husband, Campbell learns about Cole's secret past, and they both think that Cole's former bosses may somehow be involved with this current crime wave.
Leading man Seagal also wrote and played guitar on several blues-based songs that appear on the film's soundtrack.
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 Amazon.co.uk: The Glimmer Man [1996]: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Glimmer Man is typical Seagal stuff all the way, with obligatory fight scenes every 10 minutes or so, but Seagal fans will enjoy it and Brian Cox makes a suitably hissable villain.
He is usually more adept to play a macho army colonel runnin' round kicking in some geezers head, but in this he does it with a spark of acting panache and talent in the mix.
Most films I have seen with him in such as Executive Decision and the 'Under Siege' films, seem to be focused on him being some hero, this is no exception but he adds heart and soul to his game, the glimmer man is slightly original and quite graphic.
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 DM: 'The Glimmer Man' offers no hope for viewers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
"The Glimmer Man" brings the king of broken forearms (Segal) together with comic sidekick Keenan Ivory Wayans for some explosions, some gruesome murder crime scenes and a whole lot of violence that ends with, that's right you guessed it, the good guys killing the bad guys.
Maybe in these trying times of ballooning crime rates, escalating social tensions and fearfully low amounts of humanity, an uplifting story about a guy who solves all of his problems by killing people is just what the huddled masses are crying out for...
The odd couple are working on a serial killer they conveniently call the Family Man, because he kills couples in their beds and then crucifies them.
www.olemiss.edu /news/dm/archives/96/9610/961016/961016EN1movie1.html   (595 words)

  
 DVD.net : The Glimmer Man - DVD Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
When the killer called ‘The Family Man’ murders Cole’s ex-wife and her new husband the case becomes even more personal to Jack.
Glimmer Man features one of the better transfers found in the super Seagal collection.
Glimmer Man is one of the better Seagal films from the post-Under Siege era and actually tries to push the sombre one into doing something that he doesn’t done before.
www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=2116   (903 words)

  
 THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- THE GLIMMER MAN
While THE GLIMMER MAN populated with stock villains, they are easily overlooked because Steven Seagal and Keenen Ivory Wayans really work well together.
I found THE GLIMMER MAN to be Seagal’s most satisfying film, and hope that the two will re-team for another film project.
The DVD edition of THE GLIMMER MAN offers both the film in its proper 1.85:1 theatrical aspect ratio on one side, as well as a cropped pan and scan transfer on the other.
www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd_reviews/glimmer-man-dvd.htm   (606 words)

  
 The Glimmer Man
Steven plays a repressed hairdresser living with his parents who discovers his true side as performing drag queen known only as The Glimmer Man. Okay, that's a lie.
The Glimmer Man, no matter how it presents itself as a buddy movie, a comedy, or whatever, is another gruelling Steven Seagal movie.
With The Glimmer Man, Seagal has produced an amazing hybrid; a comedy action thriller that is none of the above.
www.lazybastard.com /glimman.htm   (836 words)

  
 ER | The Glimmer Man (1996)
THE GLIMMER MAN is another in a long line of ebony and ivory action flicks that attempts to offset its bone-shattering, wife-crucifying, window-breaking, ass-kicking plotline with a lethal dose of witty banter from the leads.
Gettin' your ass kicked by action/adventure's own Michelin Tire Man can't be a real career-booster.
His enemies may not be able to, but you can avoid THE GLIMMER MAN.
www.dantenet.com /er/ERchives/reviews/g_reviews/glimmer.html   (388 words)

  
 The Glimmer Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The film centers around two LAPD detectives: Jim Campbell (Keenan Ivory Wayans) and his new partner Jack "Glimmer Man" Cole (Steven Seagal), who has transferred from New York, and has an almost untraceable past.
The Glimmer Man at The Internet Movie Database
This page was last modified 13:03, 28 May 2006.
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 eBay - VHS: The Glimmer Man (UPC: 085391447931)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Glimmer Man (1997, VHS) Steven Segal; Keenen Wayans
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 Glimmer Man, The
Steven Seagal needed a new approach to his standard head-busting heroics, so he teamed up with Keenen Ivory Wayans for this routine 1996 action flick.
They're assigned to track down "The Family Man," a serial killer who earned his nickname by crucifying entire families and leaving religious graffiti as his calling card.
The case heats up when the latest victim turns out to be Cole's ex-wife, and Cole is considered a primary suspect.
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 The Glimmer Man - Rotten Tomatoes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A lean and mean exploitation thriller, The Glimmer Man might not be original or memorable, but the goods are delivered with reasonable flair and efficiency.
Subtract the gruesomeness, the language and some nekkid stuff, and the film is indistinguishable from an episode of a TV cop show.
Certain The Glimmer Man article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/glimmer_man   (577 words)

  
 Videodetective.com - GLIMMER MAN TRAILER PAGE
Jack Cole (Steven Seagal) was once a government intelligence operative known as The Glimmer Man, because he could move so quickly and quietly that his victims would only see a glimmer before they died.
Cole and Campbell have to set aside their differences when they''re assigned to track down a serial killer the press has dubbed The Family Man, for his habit of dispatching entire households at once.
However, when the Family Man''s latest victims turn out to be Cole''s former wife and her current husband, Campbell learns about Cole''s secret past, and they both think that Cole''s former bosses may somehow be involved with this current crime wave.
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 THE CINEMA LASER LASERDISC REVIEW-- THE GLIMMER MAN
THE GLIMMER MAN ($35) is an entertaining action film with a lot of comic overtones.
Their comic rapport is the heart and soul of THE GLIMMER MAN.
THE GLIMMER MAN is also Dolby Digital (AC-3) encoded; the first such Sony DADC pressing that I’ve encountered.
www.thecinemalaser.com /ld_reviews/glimmerman.htm   (395 words)

  
 eBay.co.uk - The Glimmer Man Reviews
A string of serial killings in Los Angeles forces the LAPD to call on a specialist from New York: detective Jack Cole, who's dubbed the "Glimmer Man" because he's so fast his targets only see a glimmer of him before they're caught.
Teamed up with a reluctant local cop, he uncovers a sinister conspiracy which points to him as the actual killer.
GLIMMER MAN, Steven Seagal, UK Region 2, NEW
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 Times & Free Press Movie Reviews: "The Glimmer Man"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In "The Glimmer Man," directed by John Gray, Seagal and Wayans play police detectives in a Los Angeles plagued by serial killings attributed to a maniac given to crucifying his victims after shooting them.
So plenty of bad guys in "The Glimmer Man" are left with fractured limbs and bloodied faces.
With a shady background in Vietnam, where he earned the nickname the Glimmer Man for his exploits as a CIA killer before he "went native," as his old boss says, Jack Cole speaks Chinese and Russian.
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 The Glimmer Man or On Deadly Ground? - Unofficial Steven Seagal Forums
The Glimmer Man. On Deadly Ground just doesn't work for me; I find the movie quite repellent on several different levels.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Ummm...a tough choice,however,but I'd say on many terms On Deadly Ground is more intelligent plus it was directed by the man himself and he was such a bad-ass in it,smoking that cigarette...
www.steven-seagal.net /forum/showthread.php?t=2642   (398 words)

  
 INKPOT MOVIE REVIEWS: THE GLIMMER MAN
In THE GLIMMER MAN, Seagal breaks out of this formula: he gets a sidekick, attempts to banter, and puts on a new vest.
It turns out that Cole is a former trained government assassin (you just can't trust these homicide detectives), someone whom victims used to catch just a glimpse of in the jungle before he pounced on them, and hence, well, you know, that "glimmer man" th ing (cringe).
THE GLIMMER MAN plot is pretty standard stuff, drawing (as with his other films) elements from the hotter films of the year (eg, SE7EN).
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