90th Worst Movie: The Number 23

"The Number 23" Starring Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen and Rhona Mitra
Directed by Joel Schumacher

2+3=5, 3-2=1, 5+1=6!!
By Michele Dillon

You may not have gotten my humor in the title. But basically I was playing the same number game they play in the movie and I was taking the numbers 2 and 3 to make 6 to make it seem like the movie is the devil...you know a joke is good if you have to explain it.
So, the premise of this movie is that Virginia Madsen, who plays Jim Carrey's wife, finds a book called The Number 23 and finds it interesting so she gives it to her husband to read. He starts to get obsessed with the book because it seems really similiar to his own life and he starts seeing the number 23 everywhere he goes. He thinks that the number is a curse and its going to haunt him forever.
The movie had a good idea and a good starting point, but it wasn't taken anywhere; at least not anywhere exciting. It seems like the director was just trying to be artistic and the storyline got lost in the process. After awhile, hearing about all the ways that you could turn anything into the numbers 23 got a little old and it seemed that is the only thing the movie was going to focus on until it gets to the last 30 minutes of the movie. Of course there was a twist, which I wont mention for those of you who still want to watch the movie after my review, but even the twist was lacking. I turned off the movie feeling disappointed because I felt it had all this potential that didn't get used because it was relying on the actual idea of the plot, instead of developing the idea.