The Number 23 is a does a number on your attention

Rating: 7/10 (2 November 2018)

I couldn't stop watching! I mean, my attention was kept from beginning to end. Does this mean it was a great movie? In a word, no. The Number 23 suffers from some major problems, which I feel we need to get out of the way right away. 23 problems? Oh, I'm sure I can find them, however, I don't think this website is going to allow such a lengthy review, so I'm going to narrow it down to 5 major problems. PROBLEM # 1: They STUFF useless facts about the number 23 down your throat! Famous and infamous people died on this day, The Titanic sunk on the month of such and such, on the day of the 23rd, ya ya ya, you get the point. It gets downright annoying. Okay, we get it, you're trying to establish that 23 is a freaky number, we got it! For the purposes of the movie we will believe it. Only a logical person would know the truth about the number 23 anyways. ( And that is, it's just a number!) PROBLEM #2: Story suffers from plot holes. PROBLEM # 3: Unanswered questions by the end of the film. PROBLEM #4: Impossible scenes that take place on film, but lack logic on how they were done. For example, a buried skeleton is supposedly moved, yet it is not explained how it was moved without a damn shovel. How? It was done off screen, I want to know! PROBLEM #5: Too much mystery, and not enough suspense. The movie plays too much on trying to be a mystery, and as the story unveils, more and more of the mystery is solved, but the REAL mystery remains unsolved. And that REAL mystery: What's the real deal behind the number 23? What's it's origin? Why is it a number that attracts such darkness. Okay, we are going to talk about a sixth problem here, and that is we not only fear the number 23, but multiples of 23. The word PINK, for example, corresponding to the letters to numbers of the alphabet, adds up to 46, and 46 dived by 2 is....drum roll, please...23! Well, 2 plus 3 is 5, far from 23! And 2 take away 3 is -1. See, I'm good with numbers, too. Is this a scary movie? I wouldn't say so much scary, as downright disturbing. The entire movie I'm rating at 6 stars, however, Jim Careys strong performance as the lead earns it another star. Nice work, Carey. Story goes like this: a book is given to Sparrow for his birthday. It turns out the book is about the number 23, and yet it only has 22 chapters. As he reads the book, he becomes obsessed with not only the events in the book, but also with the number 23 itself. He believes the book is about him. Too many coincidences. A few twists and turns, and this movie becomes a mind boggling, "numbing" roller coaster of a ride. If the movie doesn't follow you the rest of your life, trust me, the final scene will!