I enjoyed it a lot. I haven't heard of anyone else who has.
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02/26/07
The Number 23 (2007)
8 %
Reviews Counted: 180 Fresh: 14 Rotten:166 Average Rating: 3.5/10
Consensus:
Jim Carrey has been sharp in a number of non-comedic roles, but this lurid, overheated, and self-serious potboiler is not one of them. The Number 23 is clumsy, unengaging, and mostly confusing.
Rated: 15
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Theatrical Release: 23-02-2007
Synopsis: In Joel Schumacher's psychological thriller THE NUMBER 23, Jim Carrey takes on another dramatic role. Carrey's character is similar to his roles in THE TRUMAN SHOW and ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND: he portrays an average man thrust into quite extraordinary situations after a... [More]
Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Occult, Murder, Fantasy Worlds
Starring: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman, Danny Huston, Lynn Collins
Reviews
The answers to the story's questions are even sillier than the questions.
02/26/07
Spookily, it must have been in about the 23rd minute that my spirits began to sink and I thought: “There’d better be an awfully clever pay-off at the end of this.” Well, there isn’t.
02/26/07
Part detective story, part psychological drama, this is unsatisfying on both levels.
02/23/07
While dozing through this nonsense you may wish to speculate on the number's real significance to this movie: possibly the IQ of its writer?
02/23/07
This will undoubtedly appeal to fans of a conspiracy theory, but thrillseekers will be left feeling short-changed.
02/23/07
Just imagine, if this movie was really good, it’d get five stars (2 + 3). Instead it gets a two. Which adds up to very little.
02/23/07
Carrey tries hard to parlay his usual mad mugging into serious mad mugging, but Joel Schumacher isn't the director to get him there. Count Schumacher's films - 23 really is a bad number.
02/23/07
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This is a film that doesn’t quite know what it is. Perhaps a mistake would be the fairest description.
02/23/07
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Carrey gives the worst performance of his, or indeed any other actor's, career.
02/23/07
Carrey is effectively sinister, the visuals are often amazing, but there's less to this murky psycho-thriller than meets the eye.
02/23/07
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There's enough style, intrigue and plot twistiness in this thriller to keep us watching
02/22/07
Patchy thriller that has the occasional lively moment but is mostly confusing, tedious nonsense.
02/22/07
Genuinely intriguing in places and romps along at a satisfying pace for a conspiracy thriller.
02/20/07
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Things don't really add up in The Number 23, but you can count on some queasy chills and trashy thrills all the same.
02/20/07
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Schumacher keeps it pacy, the murky camerawork’s very cool, Carrey suitably wide-eyed, but its limitations are finally only too obvious.
02/15/07
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Jim Carrey tries his best, but the film never gets psychologically creepy, never makes the viewer question what is fiction, what is reality, and most importantly what the number 23 is all about.
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