The Trouble With 23

Rating: 4/10 (5 June 2007)

The main problem with this movie is that in the end "23" is just a number.
After all the obsession and plot twists and pursing the number 23, in the end it really doesn't matter and it could have been 24 or 14 and a half or 3.1415 or virtually any number.
A movie like this hangs a premise out like a carrot for their viewers. Sometime you want a nibble and sometimes a big bite, depending on the movie.
The number 23 not only hangs a carrot out for us to follow but gives us reason after reason to want that carrot and catch it but once we do.. .Well hell, it's just a carrot!
The journey of this character does not enlighten us nor does it explain the curse, it simply provides justice for a girl brutally murdered by a sick man.
Our compassion and desire for him to find himself and for him to reach salvation is replaced at the end with a hallow feeling of remorse and disappointment in the journey and misplaced emotions.
May be fun for the director and script writer, but for a film goer and lover I was hoping for a better ending and resolution to his demons not simply locking him up.
The kid and wife are the losers in this movie. And how about the foreshadowing of the original guy accused of the murder? How long before his kids and wife stop their visits? How long before he is alone with his demons and they consume him again?
Overall I am not happy with this film and expected a ton more...