The Glimmer Man (1996) on Netflix
Jack Cole, once a government operative, works as a Los Angeles police detective. He is paired with Detective Jim Campbell to hunt a killer called the Family Man, who kills whole families.
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Plot summary
Jack Cole, a former CIA operative nicknamed the Glimmer Man, moved through the jungle so fast and quietly that his targets saw only a glimmer before they died. He has left that life behind and now works as a detective for the Los Angeles Police Department, a practicing Buddhist who prefers to work alone. Detective Jim Campbell, his new partner, is a tough-talking cop with little patience for Cole's philosophies or his outsider attitude. Their first case together is the hunt for a killer the police call the Family Man, who slaughters whole households, and it draws the pair toward Cole's past.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Glimmer Man (1996)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Mr. Smith was written for Tommy Lee Jones, Steven Seagal's co-star in Under Siege, who was attached and then walked away just before shooting. Brian Cox took over the part at very short notice.
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The film was planned on a far bigger scale and then cut back for money: gone were the bombing of Campbell's houseboat, a SWAT raid on Cole's house and a closing gunfight in a museum.SPOILER
Steven Seagal's spiritual beliefs had left him unwilling to kill villains on screen. Stephen Tobolowsky talked him round by arguing that the deeply unhappy Maynard would find reincarnation and redemption, and the scene was shot as written.- Once shooting finished Warner Bros. re-cut the picture to move faster and feel more like earlier Seagal vehicles, losing comic and dramatic exchanges between Cole and Campbell and several scenes of Michelle Johnson as Cole's wife.
