tries to hard to be clever

Rating: 2/10 (28 January 2008)

I think the writer of this movie thought the story was clever, but it is too clever for its own good. The story just gets crazy and out there and hence becomes uninteresting. Jim Carey plays William Sparrow, a man who beings to read the novel The Number 23. He begins to find similarities between himself and the main character of the book, Fingerling. I never got how their two lives were similar. The movie explained this poorly. Sparrow begins to come up with all these crazy figures of how to get the number 23 or 32 or any variation. He says this plus this plus this equals 23, How weird? I just didn't get it. He has dreams of killing his wife and jumps out a window, but really doesn't. I'm not sure.
FINAL VERDICT: I didn't like the story. I didn't think it made sense.