[26 Feb 2007 | Monday]
 | Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities  So many of you might have been watching the trailers for this interesting little romp down the spiral of madness, rubbing your ruffled little brows and thought toyourselves, "I wonder which poor sap I can get to see that crazy flick so I don't have to sit through it in case it's a total dud?" Well look no further my fine feathered friend, for here I am your friendly neighborhood movie critic with another dose of twisted opinions with just a hint of lime. "So what is The Number 23 about?", you might be asking. Essentially, it's the story of your everyday, common man... Let's take a little sidebar here if we can. I don't know about you, but I'm sick to death of all of this everyday, common man bullshit coming out of Hollywood nowaday. It just seems like every movie has to feature a lead that's just like you or me. He's everyone! Look, I don't want to watch a movie about an everyone. I want to watch a flick about someone special, okay? I live with an everyone everyday of my fucking like, and that person is called me... no, scratch that because even I'm fucking special! So, Hollywood, enough with the fucking everymans, okay! ENOUGH! There, got that out of my system, now where were we? ...named Walter Sparrow, Carrey, who happens upon this book that basically tells the story of his life. Sure, there are things that don't add up, but then there are the strange conincidences. The author read the same books that Sparrow read as a child, grew up next to a widow with a dog like Sparrow did as a child, and they both even witnessed deaths at very young ages. As Sparrow follows the rabbit down the hole in film noir detective novel form, he is lead into a world full of hot sex, scantily clad women on the brink of nervous break downs, and eventually to the number of the film's namesake.Everything points back to the number, whether it be combinations of letters in Sparrow's name, or famous dates of star's deaths, Hiroshima's bombing, 9/11, or any number of other events. Some things don't match, but just like those big puzzle pieces, all you need is a fist and some determination and you can make it'll get into the spot you want it to be in. So what's the verdict? Look the movie's not perfect. The logic is flawed. The ending leaves much to be desired, and I'm going to tell you right now that while some of you might be okay with the final revelation there are others of you that are just going to get pissed off and hate the flick for it and never look back. It's that big of a twist. -Then again, the movie is essentially a detective noir flick at it's core and if you aren't looking around every corner for the last 15 minutes for the real killer then the movie hasn't done its job. 5.2/10 Side Recommendations: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Bar none one of my all time favorite detective flicks. If you haven't seen it, then just buy it. Don't rent it. Buy it. It's that fucking good!) |
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