You gotta be kidding!!

Rating: 3/10 (20 February 2007)

Is Joel Schumacher's mama giving this craptastic movie a 10 out of 10? I was just at a screening of this. Everyone was pretty eager - thought this might be one of those movies that's not Oscar material, but a decent thriller. It was even kind of promising in the beginning.It didn't look bad, and premise -- that Jim Carrey becomes obsessed by a book he receives and begins to find strange significance and the number 23 in his normal life -- is interesting. Shades of "The Shining." But when the "mystery" was made clear, everyone in the theater just kind of went, "Are you kidding me???!!!" People were leaving the screening lamenting the hour and 40 minutes of their lives that they'd never get back.
Personally, I think Jim Carrey is actually a damn good actor. And Virginia Madsen, who has often been the best part of the movies she's been in, deserves better, especially after lighting up the screen in "Sideways." Joel Schumacher, however...