Jim Carrey has some talent left in him.

Rating: 7/10 (25 February 2007)

"The Number 23, its everywhere... and its coming after you!". What is 23? Is it a code? maybe, is it a demonic number? Possibly, or is it simply a number?. At the moment The Number 23 is a movie, in which you can get most of your questions answered about this number. Remember, this movie is fiction and for all you believers out there...don't believe in this movie, don't start going around making wild and random conclusions about this number, don't even try and look for it, but you probably will.
Jim Carrey delivers a great performance in this Joel Schumacher thriller about a man who's drawing wild conclusion about the number 23, believe it or not if you add Virginia Madsen + Jim Carrey, you get the number 23, same thing goes if you add Joel Schumacher and Jim Carrey, you get the number 23. (Spoiler) Now, back to the actual film, the film starts off with Animal catcher Walter Sparrow(Jim Carrey) bored to death in his vehicle waiting for his shift to end, to kill some time, Walter decides to 'meow' like a cat at a passing dog. Later, Walter explains a couple of useless things, then 2 min before his shift to end he get's a call to go and catch a dog outside a Chinese restaurant, Sparrow isn't happy, so long story short- Walter ends up finding a an evil dog which Walter ends up following in a cemetery in front of a grave stone, Walter doesn't know it yet, but that grave stone will free him...so to speak. After being late to pick up his wife, Walter finds Agatha in a book store looking at a red book(which was in plane sight before picking it up by the way), Walter ends up getting that book for his birthday which is called "The Number 23", and this is where the movie officially starts off, Obsession, Suicide, Murder etc... Most of the movie is told through the actual book "The Number 23", while Walter is reading it he is imagining himself as the main character and you see the story played out in a high white contrast color. Jim Carrey plays 2 different kind of characters, Walter Sparrow(himself) and a detective named fingerling, in my opinion the acting for the detective part is spot on, definitely looks dark toned and creepy etc... I love the way they actually made the story go back and fourth cause you never got lost, you always knew what was the story and the real world because of the different colors and brightness, and of course Jim Carrey himself. (end Spoiler) There are a couple of twists and turns to keep you interested in the movie, a lot of random things which add up to 23 are in this movie...a lot. That's the only downfall, the movie has so many things in which it draws its 23 out of and all of it is pointless, and we don't even know if its real or just fiction, like the number 32 is 23 reversed, who cares! It doesn't mean its 23, you decided to switched those numbers and concluded that it meant something, or other random and useless crap.
But, the movie still keeps you guessing until the very end. Also, here's another pointer, if you think you see the number 23 everywhere and concluded that its..well, everywhere, that's simply because you're looking for the number and your simply finding it everywhere, but if you'd stop looking then you wouldn't find it at all.