The film has a 40% rating on
Rotten Tomatoes. Peter Sobczynski of
RogerEbert.com awarded the film two stars. Alan Ng of
Film Threat gave the film a 2 out of 5. Dennis Harvey of
Variety gave the film a negative review and wrote, "Apparently moviemaking keeps getting easier while writing keeps getting harder —
Wetlands being yet another example of a film whose surface technical polish can only do so much to gloss over the coarse, clumsy screenplay that flummoxes its cast."
Frank Scheck of
The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a negative review and wrote, "Stronger on style than substance." ==References==