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Directed By
Joel Schumacher
Written By:
Fernley Phillips
Cast:
Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman, Danny Huston, Lynn Collins, Rhona Mitra, Mark Pellegrino, Ed Lauter, Patricia Belcher, Paul Butcher, Michelle Arthur, Corey Stoll, David Stifel, Corey Stoll, Troy Kotsur, Walter Soo Hoo
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The Number 23 (2007)
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Movie Review by Daniel
August 10th, 2007
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THE NUMBER 23 (Dir. Joel Schumacher, 2007) Sometimes I watch movies that I know are going to be horrible. It's that I want to know in what way they are going to be horrible. I guess the genre here is psychological suspense though there's nothing either psychological or suspenseful in this convoluted Jim Carrey vehicle. For the first 10 minutes or so Carrey is his usual glide through life wisecracking self until his wife (Virginia Madsen) gives him a book about the supposedly mystical number of the title. He of course becomes obsessed with 23 seeing it everywhere â€" in his birth, address, social security #, etc. He cites examples (as does the opening credit sequence does to drive home the meaningless point) like “Ted Bundy was executed on the 23rd of January” * and even writes “9,11, 2001 - 9+11+2+1=23" in pen on his arm. Before long he makes the connection to some murdered girl and others who have had similar deadly numerical obsessions helping the movie make its red herring quota. Schumacher's films all have an overly glossy look â€" something he perfected in the era of high impact rock videos and magazine ads â€" and this is no exception. Nothing resembling real life here. This time he tried to disguise the stylized emptiness with the contrived “depth” of a cultish pseudo-intellectual theory. Consider it an extremely dumbed down PI (which cinematographer Mattthew Latique worked on too!). How many ways is this movie horrible? I'm think-ing of a number…
* Actually he wasn't! Bundy was sent to the electric chair on January 24th, 1989. Ah-ha!
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 | Lisa
Aug 10, 2007 10:20 AM
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| Yep this movie sucked donkey dick, I hated the private eye narrative. |
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