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  • 2017
  • TV-MA
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Summary Babel "Babs" Johnson (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) is a police detective who finds himself assigned to a precinct in the Wetlands, the no-man's land surrounding Atlantic City, within eyeshot of the once fancy and now dilapidated hotels and boardwalk, but a world away. Just a year ago, he was a top cop in Philadelphia, but mysterious circums...

Directed By: Emanuele Della Valle

Written By: Emanuele Della Valle

  • 2017
  • TV-MA
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2017
  • TV-MA
  • 1 h 38 m

Wetlands

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Babel "Babs" Johnson (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) is a police detective who finds himself assigned to a precinct in the Wetlands, the no-man's land surrounding Atlantic City, within eyeshot of the once fancy and now dilapidated hotels and boardwalk, but a world away. Just a year ago, he was a top cop in Philadelphia, but mysterious circums...

Directed By: Emanuele Della Valle

Written By: Emanuele Della Valle

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50
Sep 15, 2017
A terribly uneven narrative that doesn’t especially work as drama or noir and which manages to waste a pretty good cast in the bargain.
By Peter Sobczynski FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 14, 2017
Della Valle’s screenplay features the sort of artificial-sounding, hard-boiled dialogue uttered by characters who know they’re in a movie, and it’s woefully thin on storytelling coherence. Still, Akinnuoye-Agbaje looks great, and suitably haunted, walking on deserted beaches clad in a trench coat, and his co-stars prove equally compelling.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 14, 2017
A suitably haunted Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje can’t reconcile Babs’s impulsive actions with the character’s implied moral core.
By Serena Donadoni FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 14, 2017
For some, its atmosphere and intriguing performances will prove worthy of the outing.
By Andy Webster FULL REVIEW
30
Sep 15, 2017
This soggy stab at neo-noir finds Italian-born writer-director Emanuele Della Valle out of her element in a pretentious meller set on the Jersey shore.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
20
Sep 14, 2017
There are occasionally atmospheric shots of depopulated boardwalks and streets, but the strain to give the visuals meaning becomes its own clue in the worst crime committed here: the killing of good storytelling.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Prairie Pictures, StormStock, Wetlands Productions
Release Date Sep 15, 2017
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating TV-MA
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Tagline Most Come to Escape the Past. He Came to Chase It.
Website https://www.wetlandsfilm.com/
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