Who ever thought the number 23 was so evil. See I knew there was something always fishy about Michael Jordan.
This movie was hilarious in a very unintentional self-parody way. From the looks of this film in the trailers and even the poster you would've though that this was a horror film but oh god I wish it was so I could've given it more props for being a bad horror film. Not too many of them around nowadays(sarcasm).
This film is bad. I mean really bad. Not one of the worst films i've ever seen but certainly up there. The films first big problem was that it was trying hard to mix horror, psychological thriller, and suspense film all into one huge movie. However, they fail miserably with that and it just becomes one huge jumble of "huh?".
The one thing I actually thought was going to happen was I thought I was going to get a huge story on the Number 23 and its significance. However, instead I got a huge bunch of mumbo jumbo junk about some guy who does bad things and the Number 23 just so happens to be apart of it. This film fails to ever make the viewer question what is reality, and it was fiction, and most importantly what the number 23 is all about.
This film did have me at a point but then it lost me after all this obsessive junk started coming in and totally got me off track. Given the right direction this film could've been seemingly ok, but instead it fails in all levels.
One thing I will say about this film is that Carrey can act. We have seen Carrey act in very melo-dramatic roles such as in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Truman Show, but this is different from all and it is very dark and nothing like Carrey has ever dared to try before. He does give an effort and you can tell but after awhile you just cannot take him seriously, and soon him along with the film, becomes an utter laugh fest.
The Number 23 starts out normal but then becomes a clumsy, uneven, and overall confusing mess that by the end you'll still be scratching your head and wondering what the point of this film was in the end.
