Metacritic Film

Mercy Streets

Starring David A.R. White, Eric Roberts, Cynthia Watros, Shiek Mahmud-Bey, and Stacy Keach

MPAA RATING: PG-13 for violence

Providence Entertainment
Drama
108 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters October 6, 2000

The story of estranged twin brothers, John (White), a con man, and Jeremiah (White), a preacher, who are forced to switch lives. Out of a simple switch emerges repressed feelings of guilt and hate that leaves their lives and the people they love changed forever. (Signal Hill Pictures)

WRITTEN BY
Jon Gunn
John Mann

DIRECTED BY
Jon Gunn

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

28 / 100

Critic Reviews

50	TV Guide Director/co-writer/co-producer Jon Gunn's Christian agenda is evident without being intolerably sanctimonious, and he's a competent filmmaker who shows sign of having a little style.
40	Los Angeles Times The filmmakers cannot sustain enough momentum to keep their film from seeming contrived and preachy.
40	Variety No mere crime drama, but rather the latest in the recent resurgence of independently financed, spiritually themed pics that seek to couch religious dogma within the shells of B-grade genre entertainment.
30	Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman Like "Reservoir Dogs" by way of Ned Flanders, Mercy Streets is as earnest as Vacation Bible School and somewhat more cinematic.
20	LA Weekly Writer-director Jon Gunn and co-writer John W. Mann can't fashion a meaningful parable from their knot of dangling plotlines and absurd scenarios.

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