The Number 23 (2007) BOMB

Rating: 1/10 (31 July 2007)

Oh God, what a terrible film! I rented this because I was interested in seeing what funnyman Jim Carrey could do in a straight horror movie, but I shouldn't have bothered. A completely senseless mess, totally illogical and dull as dishwater.
Carrey is an animal control worker who gets hold of a book where its unknown author rants on about the symbolism of the number "23" and how it pertains to his life, and as Carrey reads, he begins to recognize himself in the character and starts to freak out and believe the book is about him. It's mind numbing in the repetitive way it goes on and on about all the alleged symbolism for the number "23", which is seemingly anywhere you go if you want to look at it that way, even when the idea is stretched to absurd extremes... Carrey's address, for instance, is 1418 -- so 14+1+8 = 23, right!? Except that 1+4+1+8 = 14 too, and 141+8 = 149 also!! Jeez... I think that Lou Costello did a better job of convincing Abbott that "7x13 = 28". One of the worst "new" movies I've seen in a long time... 0 out of ****