23 Reasons to Avoid This Movie

With a college exam coming up the following morning, you would think I have my faced firmly planted in my textbooks.

That's what you would think.

Instead, I had my backside firmly planted in a movie theatre with an bluerasberry Icee and academic apathy to keep me company.

You see, I'm a pretty big Jim Carrey fan. I loved his work in The Truman Show, Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty, and many others. It was this list of movies, therefore, that led me to think that going to see The Number 23 would be a good idea.

That's what I thought. Looks like we're both wrong, huh?

Anyway, I'll try not to spoil too much of the movie. Basically, I'll just say that it comes across as trying too hard. Most times, I'm a pretty easy moviegoer to please. I'll let reality stretch and silver screen obsurtity go to some degree, but this movie just goes a little too far.

For one, it jumps around so rapidly and wrecklessly that you would have sworn they wrote the script the night before shooting and hoped for the best (hmmm...Note to self: try not to start studying for exam the night before). Anyway, I feel that another big fault to this movie is that it's trying to go with the increasingly popular "let's shock the viewer at all cost" attitude.

What I mean by that is simply that, in my opinion, since The Six Sense came out, suspense films have been foolishly trying to recreate that "what the hell" ending that made this movie so much money.

Be original. Please.

It's not clever. It's confusing and unrealistic to have so many twists in a movie.

Well, I guess that's about all of my ranting for this film. If it was a made-for-tv movie, then maybe I would appreciate it more. Making people pay, however, to see this film is ridiculous.

Sorry Jimmy Boy...you're new movie sucks.

1 1/2 out of 4 STARS