23 reasons to walk out

Jim Carey made me laugh, too bad it was in a psychological thriller.

This film is proof that you can’t trust a preview. I walked into the cinema with high expectations after the preview blew me away and thought to myself, “maybe Jim Carey will pull this off”, thinking back to other comedic based actors like Adam Sandler who tried their hand in a more serious role. However, within the first few scenes, you could see Jim slipping back into funny mode, trying to insert little jokes or humor wherever he could. This straight away killed the eerie, serious mood that good psychological thrillers require. The movie chopped and changed far too quickly between Jim Carey’s life and a journal he was reading which was made more confusing when the actors in the journal scenes were the same actors from the actual real life scenes. Lame one liners like “how much do you wanna bet theres 23 stairs” just compounded the already shattered mood of seriousness, leaving me to consider whether or not I should get up and walk out.

Jim Carey should stick with his comedy roles, because this time around, I was laughing at him for all the wrong reasons.