We enjoyed the mystery.

Rating: Null/10 (5 October 2007)

Before we watched "23" two different people we know told us, "I began watching it but just couldn't stick with it." So we were apprehensive. But we stuck with it, and it turned out to be a fine mystery movie.
Jim Carrey is Walter Sparrow and, through a coincidence, gets hold of a book which dwells on the number 23, the numbers of things which either happened on the 23rd, or the combination of numbers yielded 23. (Of course, this sort of thinking also has to disregard all the times that they do NOT add up to 23.) Anyway, as he reads this book he is startled by how closely it parallels his own life.
Virginia Madsen is good as his wife, Agatha Sparrow. In much of the first half of the movie we are shown what appear to be dream sequences, with different character names, but played by the same actors.
All in all a fine mystery, well made.
MAJOR SPOILERS: As we get to the end we find that the book had actually been written by Walter Sparrow, and he had undergone much therapy to put the past behind him.