It wasn't bad at all, but it didn't thrill me like I thought it would

Rating: 6/10 (10 March 2007)

My boyfriend and I saw The Number 23 last night and we were pretty excited, because my girlfriend and her boyfriend said it was terrific along with other's who were saying how great of a movie it was. But I did hear from some of the girls I worked with that it wasn't that good or it could be a little predictable. For me at least, my opinion, it was a little over the top, because normally the audience would sympathize with Jim Carrey and his character, because it seems like no one would believe him, but I couldn't find myself believing him; that he was seeing the number 23 and how it all linked together.
Walter is a man who has just had his birthday, February 3, February being the second month mixed with three. His wife Agatha recommends a book called "The Number 23" to him, Walter immediately starts to read it and finds himself relating to the character Fingerling a little too much. He finds out there is a curse around the number 23, and everything in his life is adding up to that number. When he finds out that the book ends in a murder, he fears for his wife's life as well as others and his own.
Over all, I would say that this is a movie that you'd have to see for yourself, I just wasn't impressed. I couldn't sympathize with the characters and most of the movie was just a little over the top. Not to mention in some ways you can figure out the ending pretty quickly, but I am not going to give it away obviously. The only thing I found extremely funny was at the end of the movie, I checked my cell for a message and it ended at 12:11, creepy, huh?
6/10