Product Description

Steven Seagal stars as a cop on the trail of a serial murderer in this psychological action-thriller. Seagal is John Cole, a lieutenant specializing in serial murderers, who teams with a homicide detective (Keenen Ivory Wayans) to track an elusive killer.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18613 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 1997-03-26
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 92 minutes

Amazon.com
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. This time stone-faced Steve plays Los Angeles homicide detective Jack Cole, newly transplanted from New York and teamed up with Jim Campbell (Wayans). 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. That makes Seagal get really mad--you don't wanna get Seagal too upset, y'know--but he still has time to quote Buddhist wisdom and crack wise with Wayans, who plays it relatively straight as the practical half of this partnership. It's 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. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews

Immensely entertaining action hokum
It is admitted that Steven Seagal, as an actor, is not of the "method" school of Brando and De Niro. You don't watch his films to see him act. If you want to see acting, then watch the powerhouses Humphrey Bogart or Jack Nicholson, but not Seagal, the seventh dan black belt aikidoist. His films are primarily made to thrill and entertain. With his erect posture, powerful build and frowning expression, he exerts an intimidating screen presence. Like a tornado sweeping across the torrid zone, he leaves the bad guys annihilated and in brief, hard-trimmed action scenes, he despatches villain after villain with either a bullet to the head, a chop to the throat, a thrust with a knife or a kick to the face. In this film at least, he also manages to be mildly humorous and even self-deprecating in his portrayal of a bead-wearing Buddhist cop. This is the first film in which he actually draws blood during a conflict with a bad guy. The action scenes are supreme. The dialogue is post-Tarantino tart and the film, as a whole, is wonderfully self-mocking.

One of my favorite Segal movies
This is one of Segal's better movies. I would rate it with Under Siege in quality. Good plot, great supporting cast. He does not inject the PC [stuff] that many of his later movies seem to have.

Homie the Clown don't mess around and of course neither does Seagal
This week's feature has been on Sid's to do list for a very very long time and thanks to On demand at the North Pole North we were able to witness the greatest onscreen chemistry since Brett Q and the adolecesant boys he "coached" at a High School in Hicksville, Mississippi. You thought Sid was going with Swayze and McQueen there didn't you? No. They will never be approached. How dare you even think that? So it was with great anticipation that we viewed The Glimmer Man and it did not disapoint.

Seagal plays a former government operative with a checkered past turned New York Buddhist cop. Oh yeah oh yeah. He is teamed up with Keenan Ivory Wayans( he was available?) to take down a sadistic serial killer. This flick was actually made in 1996 but it had a 1991ish look. That's a couple of stars right there. The only thing that was missing out of the Seagal formula in this one was he wasn't his normal studly self. There was no Seagal love interest that would have undoubedly laughed him out of her trailer on set. Oh wait that happened with Nikki Cox anyway.

Sid really can't quantify how good this flick was. There were parts that were ridiculously enjoyable. But the flick got overwhelmed by copious ammounts of football talk and predictions. Dolphins stay really good, the Pack get a lot better, and Brett Favre gets what's coming to him if you're wondering. Ok let's wrap it up with a quick drive-in totals:

1 inexcusable Death Ring ripoff

2 impalings

2 ridiculous window crashings

62 impossible moves by Seagal.

That's what it's like when you're living in the ghetto.