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+ Worst Movie of the Year
+ Most Deserved Flop of the Year
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| The two male stars hold guns and look tough in a blueish light, surrounded by darkness, on this poster for John Gray's The Glimmer Man |
An odd couple of LAPD homicide detectives are up against a highly active serial killer with a religious spin on his misdeeds.
The Glimmer Man is written by Kevin Brodbin (Mindhunters (2004)) and directed by John Gray (Footlights and Flatfeet (1984)).
Se7en (1995) meets 48 Hrs. (1982) in this abomination, a thoroughly uninspired, poorly erected construction filled with racial stereotypes and clumsy attempts at humor. The stars, Steven Seagal (The Onion Movie (2008)) and Keenan Ivory Wayans (I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)) exude no qualities together on-screen.
The Glimmer Man has the obligatory fights, which with their awkward moves will delight some Seagal fans, as he here sports Asian dresses and pearls with no explanation offered. The giant explosions are also on hand here, but The Glimmer Man is still a bottom of the barrel turkey.
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Watch a very short TV spot for the movie here
Cost: 45 mil. $
Box office: 20.3 mil. $ - North America only
= Uncertain, but probably a huge flop
[The Glimmer Man was released 4 October (USA) and runs 92 minutes. Tommy Lee Jones dropped out of playing the villain part shortly before shooting; Brian Cox took over. Shooting took place from February - May 1996 in Los Angeles, California. The film opened #2, behind The First Wives Club, to a 7.6 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it left the top 5 in its second week and grossed 20.3 mil. $. The-Numbers.com claims that the film made 16 mil. $ internationally, which would give it a 36.3 mil. $ final gross and designate it a huge flop. Gray returned with 9 TV movies, miniseries and TV-series before his theatrical return with White Irish Drinkers (2010)). Seagal returned in Roseanne (1996, TV-series) and theatrically in Fire Down Below (1997); Wayans in Most Wanted (1997). The Glimmer Man is rotten at 11 % with a 3.60/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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