Surprised. Excellent film.

Rating: 10/10 (4 March 2007)

I think the main reasons why people disliked this film are because
1.they are too stupid to get it and/or 2. they thought that the point of this film was to have you pissing in your pants about the number 23
In my opinion, this movie was fantastic. I'm not sure if it was the point, if it was Joel Schumacher's goal, but I think the movie was loosely based on paranoia rather than the number 23. I suppose that most people disliked this movie and left the theater with the wrong idea because they didn't pay attention to the ending due to making prior judgments about the movie.
At the end of the film we are told that it was Jim Carrey; Walter Something(sorry about forgetting the name) is the author of the book and that the main motivation for his fear of the number is the fact that it was the last thing that his father apparently had to say (or write, for that matter). The ending explained that the movie was simply saying that you will find fear if you just manage to look hard and far enough. It is NOT saying that you should add up your date of birth and the letters in your mother's maiden name and find out whether it adds up to 23 or not.
AMAZING movie, go see it. I guarantee you'll leave the cinema pleased and talking about it to everyone who saw it.