Genre: Adventure/Drama
Director: Jesse Bochco
Writer: Jack Ryder
Cast: Elizabeth Henstridge, Jackie Chan
Budget: $21,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $6,513,047
Foreign Box Office: $10,310,140
Total Profit: -$10,825,266
Reaction: The lack of well-known talent (behind and in front of the camera) really hurt this one. Not even Jackie Chan, who is well past his prime, could drum up much interest overseas for this one. On a positive note, home video almost saved the bottom line.
"With it's TV actor lead and TV director, the film, honestly, feels cheap despite its decent budget. Marvelous feels, at times, like a TV movie that only gets interesting when international superstar Jackie Chan show up (but it's also kind of distracting)." - Clark Davis, JoBlo.com
"The writing is where Marvelous works. The plotting of Dr. Arlington's jungle journey is tight, without a lot of wasted screen time." - Henry Stewart, Chicago Sun-Times
"First-time film director Jesse Bochco lacks a strong vision behind the camera, and Elizabeth Henstridge sorely lacks the charisma and skill to command the film. She is in every scene of the film, but she just doesn't have the acting skills at this point in her young career to pull it all off." - Ken Hammerschmidt, Washington Post
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