Review of The Glimmer Man (1996) by Allan C — 30 Jun 2016

Steven Seagal gives the buddy cop movie a try. He's partnered with Keenen Ivory Wayans and the two opposite personalities are forced to work together to catch a serial killer known as "The Family Man.

" The action is not all that great and the story is not particularly interesting. However, Wayans is a good foil to Seagal's humorlessness (though Seagal does have some okay comedic moments) and although Seagal is hardly a good actor he's a compelling action hero to watch on-screen, even if he ever only had a small handful of decent films.

The film features many other familiar faces and character actors, including Bob Gunton, Brian Cox, Michelle Johnson, Stephen Tobolowsky, Peter Jason, Richard Gant, and Nikki Cox. And somehow, at least according to IMDB and I have a hard time believing it, Roland Joffé, the director of "The Killing Fields" and "The Mission," was originally considered to direct the picture.