23. 32 mirrored. 3 minus 2 = 1. Star.....

Rating: 1/10 (28 March 2013)

On his birthday, Walter Sparrow takes a call that leaves him dog bit and late to pick up his wife.
She's browsed in a bookstore, finding a murder mystery with numerology that loops constantly around the number 23.
The story captivates Walter: he dreams it, he notices aspects of his life that can be rendered by the number, he searches for the author, he stays in the hotel where events in the novel took place, and he begins to believe it was no novel.
His wife and son try to help him, sometimes in sympathy, sometimes to protect him. Slowly, with danger to himself and to his family, he closes in on the truth....
Hey ho its Jim Carreys turn to do psychological horror. I mean, he did great in man on the moon and the Truman show, so audiences will love him in anything serious that he does.
The disappeared without a trace, and Carrey really hasn't had a bona-fide hit since. This really was the beginning of the end for the star.
The main problem with this is the references to the number, there must be 23 every five minute and it grates, because the references are just so silly and boorish. Like naming a dog, so the letters add to twenty three, and oh look, we met when I were 23.
Schumacher has lost the plot with this, and the flashback scenes are just as bad, as if the director was trying to be a little Alex Proyas.
It's easily Carreys worst film, and its really tarnished his career, despite the fact that many have forgot that this existed.
Apart from the 23 who own it on DVD.