Alicia I love this movie so much

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Scott LeBrun You're often taking a risk with Steven Seagal cinema, ever since his hubris got the best of him with "On Deadly Ground". Here the veteran action star plays a typical Steven Seagal character, in a formula-bound plot that attempts to travel far on the odd-couple pairing of Seagal and the usually comedic actor / filmmaker Keenen Ivory Wayans. The two make for a generally agreeable team, even if the movie overall is pretty forgettable.Seagal and Wayans play Jack Cole and Jim Campbell, L.A. homicide detectives working the case of a particularly sick serial killer dubbed The Family Man. Jack is a New Age, spiritual type who frequents a Chinese restaurant and wears beads, Jim is a wise cracking sort who tears up whenever watching "Casablanca". At one point during the murder spree, there are killings that don't quite match up with the rest of them, making Jack think that they're actually the work of a professional; there's more going on here than the actions of one lone maniac. Things get personal for Jack when his ex-wife is one of the latest victims, and he is suspected of the crime.The script by Kevin Brodbin fluctuates between dialogue that is amusingly dumb and dialogue that is just plain bad. Some modest chuckles are generated, but no real comedy fireworks. This contrasts with some slasher movie type killings, and the standard one-sided fights we come to expect from a Steven Seagal joint. Director John Gray tries to inject some style here and there, such as a fight sequence staged inside a burning apartment.There are some first-rate character actors here: Bob Gunton, Brian Cox, John M. Jackson, Stephen Tobolowsky, Peter Jason, Richard Gant. Sexy lady Michelle Johnson of "Blame it on Rio" fame is completely wasted in a nothing role, and Jason is seen much too briefly. Wendy Robie of 'Twin Peaks' has a cameo, and the delectable Nikki Cox turns up as Jasons' daughter. The assemblage of talent does keep this watchable enough.Overall, the story is pretty silly, although I guess Brodbin deserves some credit for trying to make this a little more than the usual "cop vs. killer" thriller scenario.Five out of 10.

Robert J. Maxwell Here, Segal is one of those L. A. cops with a mysterious background -- once worked with the CIA, special ops, black sites, Vietnam, speaks both Mandarin Chinese and Russian, then gone native and joined a Zen monastery, was trained in the martial art called No Kan Do and the finer points of macramé. I don't hold much with martial arts. First of all it's a lot of work. Second, I've known only two guys who had some training, a high school chum and, years later, a Korean fisherman in Pago Pago. I asked them to explain some moves to me and found myself instantly on my ass without having learned a thing. But never mind that.In this movie, to which the title is linked only by the most tenuous of associations, Segal is a cop who has a partner, Wayans, and who has a tendency to sometimes break the law in the pursuit of his own idea of justice. The tendency is more pronounced when he finds his ex wife's body pinned to a wall and crucified. I mean, he gets really serious, except for the unending stream of wisecracks from him and his partner. There is one of those scenes in which his boss on the LAPD tells him to hand over his shield. He throws it into a urinal.No need to go on about the plot. The heavies are the Russian mafia and a corrupt CIA official. When Segal is finished demolishing a restaurant and a dozen or so heavies, he's not even breathing hard. The practice of Zen will do that for you. There are shots galore, a wild car caroming off others at high speed, an escape from a blossoming fireball (twice).That's it. I mean that's the whole story.

Wuchak Released in 1996, "The Glimmer Man" is a cop thriller starring Steven Seagal and Keenen Ivory Wayans as a detective team in Los Angeles, the former recently transferring from New York City. As they get to know each other they're simultaneously tracking a serial killer called "the family man" who kills whole families and crucifies his (or her) victims on the walls. Will they catch the killer and who is it? This is a competent buddy cop thriller in the mold of the Dirty Harry flicks, the Lethal Weapon films and even "Se7en," but with Seagal and Wayans. If you like those films and Seagal or Wayans you might want to check this out. The movie's decent with a few quality Seagal fight sequences, but something holds it back from greatness, like the Dirty Harry flicks. The serial killer who crucifies his victims on the walls seriously stretches realism. How exactly does he lift the victims up on the wall to stake their hands into it? Wouldn't that take a lot of extra time after murdering a family? What about the noise? Would a killer seriously stick around to do this? I just didn't like the complexities and contrivances of the serial killer subplot, particularly as it developed in the final act. Moreover, the constantly raining weather of dead-of-Winter Los Angeles makes for a gloomy cinematic palate. However, everything else clicks for a quality cop thriller, except that there are no prominent female roles.The movie runs 91 minutes and was shot in Los Angeles.GRADE: C+

DigitalRevenantX7 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.