The Glimmer Man

The Glimmer Man (1996)

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Continuity mistake: When Keenan is watching Casablanca, Segal shows him a yellow slip and is wearing gloves. When they show his full body he has no gloves on.

Visible crew/equipment: During a scene where Steven Seagal dives over a wall to escape an exploding vehicle, the view changes to overhead and you can see the spotter there to make sure that Steven Seagal hits his mark.

Other mistake: In a fight scene between Segal and the killer, when he and Segal are fighting you can clearly see the stand in for the killer doing the martial arts is obviously shorter than the actor he's meant to be a double for.

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Segal meets the CIA boss at the Asian restaurant, he takes a napkin laying under some bread on the middle of the table. In the next scene, the napkin is back under the bread.

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Continuity mistake: Near the beginning of the movie Steven Seagal and Keenan Ivory Wayans are driving to a hostage taking in a car that's seen as a Chevrolet Caprice from the front and as a Ford Crown Victoria from the rear.

Continuity mistake: At the end of the picture, why are there fire trucks there with fire hoses laying in the street? There was no fire, just shootings.

Revealing mistake: After Seagal and the student jump off the window they land on the floor and for a brief but obvious moment one can notice it's not Seagal but his stunt double.

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Other mistake: At the scene of Coles' ex wife's murder, the police car nearest the footpath is impossibly parked. There is a lamppost inches from the front of the car and a tree inches from the rear. Did it parachute in?

Audio problem: When Cole says "Boring" during the end fight scene, his mouth does not move.

Continuity mistake: When the two Russian mafia guys pretending to be Internal Affairs come to take Seagal away from his home, the windscreen wipers are vertical when they leave the car. On returning to the car, the wipers are now in the normal parked position.

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Lt. Jack Cole: Listen, um, I want you to deliver a message for me. You tell your asshole boss that nobody, nobody threatens me.
Donald Cunningham: I understand. I'll convey your feelings to Mr. Deverell.
Lt. Jack Cole: Now get your ugly white ass outta here and don't come back.

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Trivia: Steven Seagal had some sort-of religious "breakthrough" before filming began and decided he didn't want to kill any villains in the movie. This caused some friction on the first day, when he was set to film a scene where he killed Stephen Tobolowsky. Tobolowsky, knowing how spiritual Seagal was, ended up convincing Seagal that killing his character was the right thing to do, as it would allow his character to be redeemed and reborn in a new body through reincarnation. The scene was filmed as it was scripted. Later, however, Tobolowsky got a call from the director, who informed him that Seagal kept improvising lines implying that Tobolowsky survived. Tobolowsky ended up having to come back out and record some wonky dialog of his character screaming "Finish me off!" to imply he survived and appease Seagal. In the end, the lines weren't used and Seagal's improvisations were simply cut out, so Tobolowsky is killed off as was originally planned.

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