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Jim Carrey (Actor), Virginia Madsen (Actor), Joel Schumacher (Director) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman, Danny Huston, Lynn Collins
  • Directors: Joel Schumacher
  • Producers: Beau Flynn, Fernley Phillips, Tripp Vinson
  • Format: PAL
  • Subtitles: English
  • Audio Description: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Eiv
  • DVD Release Date: 23 July 2007
  • Run Time: 95 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (111 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000PI3UPO
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,852 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Thriller starring Jim Carrey. Walter Sparrow (Carrey) is a middle-aged dogcatcher whose wife Agatha (Madsen) has bestowed him with an obscure mystery novel detailing the investigation launched by a tough-talking gumshoe named Fingerling (also Carrey) whose every move seems to be overshadowed by the number 23. After noting a series of alarming parallels shared between the fictional detective and himself, Walter is quickly drawn in to the story. His mind fast descending into a dark and violent whirlwind of madness, Walter enlists the aid of Agatha and the pair's adolescent son Robin (Logan Lerman) in seeking out the author of the mysterious tome and uncovering the sinister truth behind the enigma.

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Jim Carrey as a schizophrenic murderer isn't convincing, in this melodramatic film about a man obsessed by the Number 23. Joel Schumacher (Batman Forever, St. Elmo's Fire) has unintentionally managed to make a comedy of horrors that really is quite humorous in parts. Walter Sparrow (Carrey) becomes engrossed in a homespun novel about Detective Fingerling, whose life degrades into mayhem because of his obsession with 23's esoteric numerical puzzles. Sparrow's preoccupation with the book follows his botched attempt to catch a nasty dog that bites him, leading one to believe that Sparrow's contraction of rabies might be the cause for his mental degradation. As the story progresses, Sparrow retreats further into Fingerling's world, rife with suicidal sexpots and hardboiled detective sleuthing. His wife, Agatha (Virginia Madsen), also plays Fingerling's girlfriend, sex-crazed Fabrizia, who taunts Fingerling until he stabs her. Back in reality, Walter aims to solve the unresolved crimes in the book, taking it as a murderer's diary rather than as an imagined work. The story is half-baked, though Carrey's portrayal of a mentally disturbed person is what makes The Number 23 comedic. Long, contemplative stares, and over-dramatized acting renders Sparrow a clichéd character, rather than one odd enough to engage viewers. For a better version of almost the exact plot but with a terrorist's twist, see Thr3e instead. --Trinie Dalton

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3.0 out of 5 starsThe Number 23 - Everything is 23. Or 5. Or 6. Or something equally nonsensical.
By Victor HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER on 5 Aug. 2014
Format: DVD
This is an entertaining slice of hokum from Jim Carrey and director Joel Schumacher. Carrey plays an ordinary boke who happens across a book. Whoever wrote the book seems to know an awful lot about Carrey's life, and he soon becomes obsessed with the paranoid idea that the book is about him. The book centres on a character (also played by Carrey) who is so obsessed with a number - 23 - that it leads him to murder. Carrey soon becomes similarly obsessed, managing to translate everything in life to the number 23. We follow him as he slowly descends into paranoid loopiness and struggles to find reality.

It's a film with the odd twist and turn, but nothing too surprising. It hinges on Carrey, and he turns in a pretty good performance. I like Carrey best when he is playing it straight, and this blend of everyman and nutcase suits him to a tee. He is the best thing about the film by a mile. The plot has a few holes in it, and those with overly logical minds will find fault with a few things, such as the obsession with 23. Why not continue to add the digits to get 5, or multiply them to get 6, thus reducing it to a single digit and reaching the logical conclusion of the number game? It makes no sense to just stop at 23, but then I suppose that sort of irrationality by definition is nonsensical.

It's a decent and watchable thriller worth 4 stars right up to the end, where it just falls apart a bit. The director takes too long over it, tacking on scene after scene to tidy everything up after the main revelation. This drags the film past its natural life. I felt that just cutting it after the main revelation and leaving a few questions unanswered and ambiguous would have made it a much stronger film. As it is, the last 10 minutes really drag. SO another star lost for that, making it 3 in total. Actually I was torn between 2-3 stars...
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3.0 out of 5 starsDifferent, but not different enough
By Mr. S. J. Downing on 2 Aug. 2007
Format: DVD
Jim Carrey plays Walter Sparrow, a man whose surburban wife-'n'-teenage-kid life begins to unravel when he comes into contact with a mysterious book which carries the title of the film: Number 23. The tatty, self-published novel triggers a feverish numerological obsession in Sparrow, who begins to see associations with the number everywhere he looks. The more he reads, the more he becomes drawn into the gloomy, seedy world of the book's author, with whom Sparrow identifies heavily. Moreover, it becomes apparent that the book's author is not just an author of a disturbing book, but that he or she was involved in a grizzly crime.

The film culminates in a confusing whodunnit/goose-chase. I've seen the 'unexpected twist' of who the culprit is so many times in other recent films that I remember commenting on it before having seen Number 23. If that's a spoiler, then the film-making studios are to blame for overusing this particular trendy theme to a ludicrous degree. I can't imagine I'm the only one who thought "not again!"

I find numerology to be laughable nonsense, but moments in this film left me with genuine unease as Sparrow continued his downwards mental spiral in pursuit of the number. There are some splendid pieces of camera work and general cinema wizardry in this film, particularly the clever juxtapositions of Sparrow's bright and orderly life and the shadowy, grimy world that the book reveals to him. There is an element of style over substance in Number 23, though. It never grounds itself long enough to become, if not believable, than at least a world in which the viewer can become immersed.

Carrey has come a long way since his Mask and Ace Ventura days.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsOK thriller
By chelios1981 VINE VOICE on 12 Aug. 2013
Format: DVD
Director Joel Schumacher is known for his visual flair on a number of films (Lost boys, Flatliners for example) and here he does it again with a twisty thriller about a family man and professional animal catcher who starts to go slightly crazy after reading a book his wife gives him for his birthday.

So visually it's as stylish as one would expect from the flashy if hit and miss director.

Sadly whilst the initial first half set up is well done, this film ravels out of control plot wise, and leads to the typical Hollywood twist after twist ending.

Jim Carrey is good in the lead, doing a straight role for a change, playing a man slowly going crazy, but it's sadly only a reasonable film, and not quite the clever physiological thriller it could have been, but at least the plot is all answered in the final scenes.

If you like films like Fight club or The Machinist, this has a similar story arc, where all is not what it seems, but becomes evident in the few final scenes and whilst not as good as those is worth a watch.
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3.0 out of 5 starsInteresting but uneven - Carey struggles to play it straight
By Benminx on 12 Sept. 2010
Format: DVD
This film was clearly done at a time when Carey was still getting used to not playing it for laughs. Walter, his animal catcher everyman, has a propensity for wide eyed manic stares and spaced expressions that are a millimetre away from some of his Ace Ventura gurns in places and it distracts from the serious nature of the film. Virginia Madsen is great as his wife, and Danny Houston and a very young Logan Lerman are ideal in their supporting roles. When Walter's given a seemingly self-published book by an unheard of author by his wife, she doesn't realise it's going to hook him into an obsession with a supposed sinister meaning of the number 23 and an obsession with working out how it affects his own life.
The book is portrayed through some very effective and nicely stylised noirish scenes, and director Joel Schumaker shoots some astonishingly visually gorgeous 'childhood' scenes, before moving on to harder edged noir for the scenes between the book's detective 'Fingerling' and the many mysterious women in the novel. Fingerling is also played by Carey with heavy duty dark noirish mystery and his tattooed, hard staring detective is a more fascinating character than his slightly weak everyman. His Walter's descent into obsession is characterised mostly by staring and expecting other people to see his point - he never goes truly bananas. Furthermore the plot raises lots of fascinating implications about vast historic events being affected by the number 23, but then drops them all like a hot potato to concentrate purely on Walter's far smaller story. This feels like a peculiar move and a bit of a waste of potential.Read more ›
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