madness

Rating: 3/10 (1 February 2016)

Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey) works animal control. Walter gets bite by a dog and late to meet his wife Agatha (Virginia Madsen). She walks into a book store and they find a book "The Number 23". He is captivated by the book about Detective Fingerling (Jim Carrey). He is soon obsessed with the number 23, the book and the author Topsy Kretts. He finds connections to his own life and the number drives him slowly into madness.
Director Joel Schumacher may be trying to create a world of madness. All he actually achieves is an infuriating mess of a story. The movie is pretty lifeless. It's like trying to talk to somebody who keeps talking about the number 23. It's very repetitive and goes nowhere. I don't blame Carrey or any of the actors. The other world following the book and Fingerling is rather boring and distracts from the movie. This is simply madness.