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Jun. 14th, 2007|08:50 pm |
Šūmaher- piedodu par "Operas spoku", paldies par "Klientu", "8 mm", "Telefonbūdu", bet šito gan laikam nepiedošu! Man nav spēka pašam to visu izteikt, tāpēc pilnībā pievienojos: 23 Reasons Not to See The Number 23
There are more than 23 reasons why Joel Schumacher’s “The Number 23” is not very good; but in keeping with the theme, I’ll stick to the titular sum:
1. Promoted as a psychological thriller, the film is neither thrilling nor psychologically intriguing;
2. Jim Carrey is miscast as Walter Sparrow, a dog catcher with a wife, Agatha (Virginia Madsen) and son, Robin (Logan Lerman), who goes nuts after he reads a book titled “The Number 23”;
3. With his floppy long hair, Carrey looks nothing like the father of a teenager;
4. Carrey looks uncomfortable as his comic side is straining to burst out of his skin. He’s trying too hard here;
5. With a surname like Sparrow, it’s criminal to name your son Robin;
6. Why does it take Agatha about an hour to read the book while Walter spends days with the mysterious paperback novel?;
7. After Walter discovers that the book’s protagonist, Detective Fingerling, had a childhood similar to his own, he begins to obsess with the number 23, forcing us to sit through a bizarre numerology seminar;
8. Despite all the arguments that everything that’s happened in history is somehow related to the number 23, the script just confirms my theory that it’s just random delusional analyses;
9. Ted Bundy was not executed on January 23, 1989, but January 24, 1989;
10. Madsen should stop playing the resilient wife (see “Firewall”); you can see her trying to keep a straight face as Walter confronts her with his ridiculous theories;
11. Agatha and Robin jump on Walter’s oddball bandwagon too eagerly, becoming as nutty as he is;
12. The film noir elements of the Fingerling story contain dialogue that is cheesy and laughable;
13. Madsen is not at all convincing as Fabrizia, the femme fatale lover of Fingerling, especially when she precariously prances around in stilettos;
14. Why would the book’s publisher, after being tracked down by the Sparrows, try to kill himself?;
15. Why is it that only in bad thrillers abandoned mental institutions contain documents still intact more than a decade later?;
16. There are more red herrings here than in Iceland;
17. Schumacher and screenwriter Fernley Phillips weren’t sure whether to make a supernatural thriller about numerology or a murder mystery – the end result is a mess;
18. Unable to create suspense through a credible story, Schumacher borrows heavily from David Fincher in terms of visuals with the heavy tattoos, blood and graffiti, which only adds to the unpleasantness of the proceedings;
19. Using a dog as a “protector of souls” so Sparrow can go after him with a tranquillizer gun is a lame and laughable device;
20. The story gets so ridiculous that when a bus nearly kills Sparrow, one colleague quipped: “They should’ve put the dog behind the wheel”;
21. The stories-within-stories that turn into flashbacks-within-flashbacks is beyond confusion;
22. The twist surprise ending had us rolling our eyes in disbelief;
23. 97 minutes of my time wasted; multiply 9 x 7 = 63, remove 40 and you have 23. Omigod!!!! |
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