""Number 23" gave me a headache and not the good kind of headache I got when I saw "Children of Men" (the good kind from awesome intensity and realism). No, the "put your fingers on the bridge of your nose and sigh headache". I felt like I was taking a math quiz. I don't go to movies to do addition. When I see bad movies, I usually do subtraction- $10 for movie, 2 hours of my life lost etc... I was surprised they didn't hand out a "Scantron" sheet and a #2 pencil during the movie. "23" tries to be "Memento" or "Angel Heart" and fails.

Jim Carrey does a good job playing the adding madman. Carrey's life is taken over by his obsession (from reading a book given to him called 23) to add all of these numbers to equal "23". The forcing of numbers to fit into this equation could not keep my interest. I can make any number seem like it has an importance on my life if I tried, but why? To bad this movie didn't actually take the book he was reading and do a movie on that story. Would have been a better movie. This movie would be good on PBS, to teach kids about math. Here's my equation for "23"- $6 for movie + $10 for gas + 3 of us went + $4 for popcorn = "23" or save your money and watch it on cable.

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