
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 DunLe... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| San Francisco ChroniclePeter StackAlthough this slick Seagal action pic won't convert die-hard detractors, aficionados will note that he's both gained weight and lightened up. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzSeagal gives us a fairly good Bruce Lee impression in a film that is more moronic than it should be. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaKeenen Ivory Wayans is so much more interesting, lively, and fun than Seagal you wish that he were the star of the film. |
| Film.comJohn HartlJust as foolish and formulaic as it sounds. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Quentin CurtisJohn Gray's The Glimmer Man is strictly for Steven Seagal fans (if there is such a species). |
| Boston GlobeMichael SaundersAs the plot gets even worse than that of a bad serial killer movie, not even the OK fight scene at the end can redeem it. |
| Chicago TribuneJohn PetrakisThe Glimmer Man is simply a spectacular belly-flop of an action movie -- neither good enough nor bad enough to be anything but instantly forgettable, though not necessarily painless. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliAll-in-all, what we have here is classic Seagal. And that means, for anyone who isn't an admitted fan, an uninspired outing. |
| The New York TimesLawrence Van GelderShort on suspense, routine in its action and monotonous in its performances. |
| Jam! MoviesLiz BraunYour average five-year-old could have constructed a plot with fewer holes in it. |