in a word and god awful . too many plot hole . um and yeah . who take their kid to dig up a dead body in the middle of the night . and what up with his wife steal the skeleton . who do that . why and exactly do the shrink stab himself in the neck . and that whole dog thing . i mean and really . have sparrow narrate from the beginning also just completely destroy the suspense for me . i mean and if he narrate the story and clearly he live to tell it and so there no chance of him get offed . where the suspense there . of course and you expect plot hole in a film like this . but and there be so many i lose track of the story completely because of them . what kind of name be fingerling . or toppsy . why do the wife dig up the body . ( who do that . ) or go into that crazy spooky asylum alone . and where would all those candle come from . why do the writer have his po box in the freaking book . i mean come on . and the book just happen to find it way to the bookstore next door to the wife bakery . way too convenient . oh and happy birthday honey and here a book about a serial killer . what a thoughtful gift . the book be like 20 page long and half of which be blank and and it take him freak forever to read it . if he truly obsess with this book and wouldn not he have read it all in one shot . a bit convenient for him to bump into his future wife ( carry a cake . ) about 23 second after be release from a mental hospital . how old be he play . 36. be i the only one at the end rooting for the bus to actually run the guy down . not good when youre root for the protagonist to bite it in the end . it seem like this be write by committee . i imagine that the first draft probably have nothing to do with the number 23. it seem a if they need a gimmicky hook to bait the audience into think there be some supernatural thing go on and when in the end it really do not seem to have anything to do with anything . i mean and i wasn not expect the godfather or anything and but everything about this film be a total let down . without all the numerology stuff and this movie could actually have be ok and instead of some hackneyed se7en knockoff . not scary and unintentionally hilarious and otherwise a total snoozer .