Good 23rd work of Schumacher!

Rating: 7/10 (16 May 2007)

I'm writing this comment still thinking in that number, is amazing how you can put things together that make seem the number 23 appear!. Well i hope the movie effect don't last too much, but i can write some things about this movie. First, it was a good movie for me, i expected more of it, but was good for me; i has always loved how Schumacher brings a totally well adjusted atmosphere to the movies; the colors, the places, the darkness and all is great, so the movie at some parts was really scary and spooky, that's Shumacher signature, like 8mm and Batman Forver; the script was original for a thriller, that's good specially when you are a movie fan and the thriller movies start to look all like the same, this paranoia involved about a number is absolutely great obtained. When the movie started and i saw Jim Carrey, it was difficult for me not seeing him as a funny role, but while the movie evolves, he perform a really good acting that erased me the funny Jim Carrey that i'm used too, that was great! The NED dog was a good reference to The Omen (1976) that makes this movie scary at times. I also found a good message after the movie, but i left that to you because this movie is really worth to not be spoiled in a comment. The only thing that i didn't liked of the film was that i expected a more scary and thrilling movie, but that is far from a critic to the movie, is just a personal feeling.
ABOUT THE FILM: Jim Carrey is Walter Sparrow, a common man who work in an animal control department, suddenly his girlfriend Agatha (Virginia Madsen) finds a book on an old library, the book name was "The Number 23", she decide to give the book to Walter as a gift. Walter start to read the book and to develop an special obsession for the character of the book, Fingerling, who has a lot of similarities with Walter, the character of the book, Fingerling, a detective, develop an obsession with the number 23, this number appear in all the things of his life and he starts to think that it means something more. Walter, while reading the book start to find that this number is also appearing in all his life. Robin Sparrow (Logan Lerman), Walter's son, start to live his father's obsession; and Isaac French (Danny Huston), a psychologist tries to help Walter with this obsession.
7/10