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"&lt;p&gt;There&amp;apos;s a mess of things wrong with this suspense thriller.  t with he fact that it&amp;apos;s neither suspenseful nor thrilling. The so-called original screenplay is by first-timer Fernley Phillips. But it&amp;apos;s right out f the doppelg&amp;#xE4;nger creep shows that Stephen King did to a scary turn n &lt;em&gt;The Dark Half&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Secret Window&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jim Carrey, channeling Jack Nicholson in &lt;em&gt;The Shining&lt;/em&gt;, plays Walter Sparrow. He&amp;apos;s a dogcatcher (an &lt;em&gt;Ace Ventura&lt;/em&gt; homage?) with a hot wife Virginia Madsen) and an adoring teen son (Logan Lerman). Then Walter picks up &lt;em&gt;The Number 23&lt;/em&gt;. It&amp;apos;s a book about a detective named Fingerling, also played by Carrey. The dick is a nut job and possible murderer who strikes personal chords with Walter. You see, there are things in Walter&amp;apos;s past he has repressed. Fingerling is fixated on the number 23. Maybe you are, too. It&amp;apos;s a cult. Do you find meaning in knowing that, say, Kurt Cobain died in 1994: 1 + 9 + 9 + 4 = 23?&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;Me, I&amp;apos;d like 23 reasons from the Academy why Carrey wasn&amp;apos;t Oscar-nominated for &lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/the-truman-show-19980605\"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Truman Show&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Man on the Moon&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind-20040310\"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Still, our boy is floundering here. Not because the role isn&amp;apos;t comic, but because it&amp;apos;s so comically intense. The tattoos, the glary eyes, the strained tendons and &amp;#x2014; ohmigod &amp;#x2014; all that &lt;em&gt;bloooood&lt;/em&gt;. They seem like overcompensation for a movie that never achieves liftoff. Director Joel Schumacher, working with the great cinematographer Matthew Libatique (&lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/requiem-for-a-dream-20001211\"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Requiem for a Dream&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), shines up the oldest tricks in the &lt;em&gt;book&lt;/em&gt;. But I find the thick wad of improbabilities in this junk impossible to swallow. Wait a sec, I think I just wrote sentence 23.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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