2007 · thriller · mystery · crime
The Number 23
Directed by Joel Schumacher1h 37m2007
Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.
Our read: The Number 23 (2007) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive thriller · mystery · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme thriller / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- twisty
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