Marvelous
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Jesse Bochco
Writer: Jack Ryder
Cast:
Elizabeth Henstridge .... Dr.Jean Arlington
Jackie Chan .... Mr. Sang
Plot: Dr Jean Arlington (Elizabeth Henstridge), an exceptional doctor is escorted as a single passenger in a private plane to perform a surgery on an undisclosed V.I.P in China. Near Himalayas, her plane suffers turbulence and finally crashes. She gets trapped in the debris she realizes whatever is left of that plane will explode in next coming hours and tries to find a way to escape. After some struggles she finally frees herself and somehow gets a good distance to escape the explosion.
She walks and walks for a long time to find something that resembles life when she begins to lose hope she sees a jungle and goes into it. After some time she thinks she is being watched and followed she runs till she goes out of the jungle but is then finally confronted by valley in front of her with a river flowing through it.
After getting hungry she decides to go back in the Jungle to find some food which she finds. After some time because of tiredness she falls asleep. When she awakens she sees a wolf is staring at her. After a cat and mouse chase she is back at the valley with the wolf behind her. She outsmarts the wolf by making it jump in the valley.
She starts mapping the jungle but finds out soon that in all the directions she goes from the plane crash site leads to the jungle and all the jungle exits leads to the same valley.
Once again when she wandering in the jungle she believes someone is watching her instead of running away she ran towards it to find Mr. Sang (Jackie Chan). Who tells her that he has spend years in the jungle trying to escape. He has seen a lot of people come and go but only in two ways wither they get eaten by the wolf or jumps into the valley to end their lives after being tired to save themselves from the wolf and she is the first one who has thrown the wolf down the hole. He says he also came here by a plane crash at the same site.
After few more days, Jean can't take it anymore and goes to the valley to do the same what others have done till now, jump and end her life. Sang tries to talk her out of it. While they both are arguing Jean realizes that the river in the valley needs to go somewhere. She believes it is the exit and shares it with Sang who thinks she is just grasping the straws and still tries to talk her out of it but she ignores him and jumps trying for the river.
While falling a white light appears and she wakes up in a room where she sees Mr.Sang clapping and congratulating Jean saying, "Wow! Dr Jean it was Marvelous."
The End.
Director: Jesse Bochco
Writer: Jack Ryder
Cast:
Elizabeth Henstridge .... Dr.Jean Arlington
Jackie Chan .... Mr. Sang
Plot: Dr Jean Arlington (Elizabeth Henstridge), an exceptional doctor is escorted as a single passenger in a private plane to perform a surgery on an undisclosed V.I.P in China. Near Himalayas, her plane suffers turbulence and finally crashes. She gets trapped in the debris she realizes whatever is left of that plane will explode in next coming hours and tries to find a way to escape. After some struggles she finally frees herself and somehow gets a good distance to escape the explosion.
She walks and walks for a long time to find something that resembles life when she begins to lose hope she sees a jungle and goes into it. After some time she thinks she is being watched and followed she runs till she goes out of the jungle but is then finally confronted by valley in front of her with a river flowing through it.
After getting hungry she decides to go back in the Jungle to find some food which she finds. After some time because of tiredness she falls asleep. When she awakens she sees a wolf is staring at her. After a cat and mouse chase she is back at the valley with the wolf behind her. She outsmarts the wolf by making it jump in the valley.
She starts mapping the jungle but finds out soon that in all the directions she goes from the plane crash site leads to the jungle and all the jungle exits leads to the same valley.
Once again when she wandering in the jungle she believes someone is watching her instead of running away she ran towards it to find Mr. Sang (Jackie Chan). Who tells her that he has spend years in the jungle trying to escape. He has seen a lot of people come and go but only in two ways wither they get eaten by the wolf or jumps into the valley to end their lives after being tired to save themselves from the wolf and she is the first one who has thrown the wolf down the hole. He says he also came here by a plane crash at the same site.
After few more days, Jean can't take it anymore and goes to the valley to do the same what others have done till now, jump and end her life. Sang tries to talk her out of it. While they both are arguing Jean realizes that the river in the valley needs to go somewhere. She believes it is the exit and shares it with Sang who thinks she is just grasping the straws and still tries to talk her out of it but she ignores him and jumps trying for the river.
While falling a white light appears and she wakes up in a room where she sees Mr.Sang clapping and congratulating Jean saying, "Wow! Dr Jean it was Marvelous."
The End.
BOX OFFICE
Budget: $21,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $6,513,047
Foreign Box Office: $10,310,140
Total Profit: -$10,825,266
Domestic Box Office: $6,513,047
Foreign Box Office: $10,310,140
Total Profit: -$10,825,266
REVIEWS
"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
Rated PG-13 for intense images
Filming Locations:
Queensland, New Zealand
Queensland, New Zealand