Truly, truly awful beyond belief

Rating: 1/10 (28 July 2007)

Starring Jim Carrey. That's always a bad idea. He can't play serious, he's far too annoying. Every scene he's trying to be intense you just can't take him seriously one iota. He is an animal control officer who is bitten by a dog. His wife gives him a book for his birthday which has heavy symbolism of numerology based around the number 23.
He starts to find patterns in the book and in real life around him and thinks the book is about him. We follow his descent into madness and insanity as he reads the book and becomes obsessed with it's symbolism.
The pursuit of trying to find the truth behind the book and it's writer lead to the truly awful twists of this film. Carrey was the writer, the book is entirely factual and he is a murderer.
The film drags on far too long getting from scene to scene, the resolution takes far too long.
Carrey's character would have been executed or given life without parole as not only is he a murderer, he is also insane.
Worth avoiding like the plague.