It's just a number!

Rating: 5/10 (28 February 2017)

***SPOILERS***Jim Carrey as animal control employee-or dog catcher-Walter Saprrow gets himself bit by this runaway pit bull that later results in him becoming obsessed with the #23 in a book by the same name that his wife Agatha, Virginia Madsen, bought for him as a birthday present. What the dog and the book had to do with each other has to do with a murder or so were told that was committed 15 years earlier that later turns out to be the reason for the books contents! As Walter starts to read the book #23 he becomes fascinated with not only the number 23 but with all the combinations of numbers, added subtracted and divided, that make up that number. In him feeling that they all have something to do with solving the murder of the person in the book "#23" of Laura Tollins, Rhona Mitra, who incidentally was killed at the age of 23!
It soon become apparent that Walter's obsession with the book has to do with him somehow being involved with its contents in that Walter soon takes on he identity, in his deranged mind, of the main character of the book PI Fingering who's out to solve and find Laura's murderer. The film starts to get so confusing that Walter in finding what its, the book "#23", all about that he loses his mind as in reading it he comes to the book's 23rd chapter that he finds out to be totally blank. The reason for that is that who ever wrote it was Laura's killer and didn't want the police or anyone reading the book to find out his identity!
***MAJOR SPIOILERS***Idiotic to say the least with so many sub plots that are enough to fill at least a half dozen movie scripts the movie is just too insane, like Walter Sparrow, for anyone to either grasp understand or follow. Jim Carrey who incidentally got paid $23,000,000.00-There's that darn number 23 again- for his role as Walter Sparrow also was awarded by many film critics as being the worst actor of the year 2007 in his role in the film. The ending had Walter finally solve the mystery of Laura's murder by him finding out, with the help of his wife Agatha, that he not only wrote the book but was also the main character in it. That he in the end luckily got off with a light sentence in that the judge and jury declared him to be mentally insane when he wrote it.