When Jim Carrey's playing Walter Sparrow for the first part, he's decent. Not great, but not terrible. He works as a dog catcher. That's it for the good.

 

When Jim Carrey's playing Walter Sparrow in the second part, he bad. As a paranoid nut afraid of the number 23, he's funnier than some of his recent comedy roles. His movie wife Virginia Madson is bad as well. The less said about her performance in the story within a story the better. And Logan Lerman is annoying as Hell as their son Robin. His name is Robin Sparrow. Geddit?

 

When Jim Carrey's playing Detective Fingerling he's f*cking horrible!!! He's completely over his head here. His performance is groan inducing without being hilariously bad. I'm going to say something incredibly shocking now: Joel Schumacher's direction isn't the worst thing here!!! He still can't direct, create tension, or make us care about the characters, but he's not the worst. The worst thing is the script by Fernley Phillips. All his script amounts to is Darren Aronofsky's Pi with dumber writing and worse actors. You could have excised the 23 plot from the film without changing too much of the story. Also, I think that this script might have been rejected a couple of times since there's a scene where Walter uses a callbox to call the police. This is a movie made in 2007 and he had the son with him when he called. The son didn't have a cellphone? And let's not even get into the moronic twist. I'll be here all night ripping that too shreds.

 

It felt good to bash Schumacher again. Grade: F

 

Next-up: Hannibal!!

 

Jim isn't just a comedian.He's an actor.He's gon'na do drama sometimes,and you can't hate him'cuz of that.

 

But the real reason why this movie is here is because it was directed by the man who ruined the Batman movie series, and starred a non-funny Jim Carrey, and in Carrey's case, funny is the only way he can make money.