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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The Number 23 (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 181
Fresh: 15
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Occult, Murder, Fantasy Worlds
Theatrical Release: Feb 23, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $35,063,732
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... [More]
Starring: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman, Danny Huston
Director: Joel Schumacher
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01/15/08
So much cascading hatred for the audience runs through the flickering images of this film!
09/27/07
... the film astoundingly reaches new levels of unintentional self-parody with every turn.
08/02/07
THE NUMBER 23 starts off promisingly but quickly devolves into an uneven mess.
07/14/07
Top Critic What could have been an intriguing psychological drama turns into a mediocre crime thriller.
07/09/07
The Number 23 is Schumacher's first stab at a scary movie, the end result just doesn't quite add up.
06/25/07
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04/27/07
The Number 23 is just a sordid exercise for a comedy actor to stretch his dramatic muscle.
04/22/07
Joel Schumacher does a chaotic job of turning this thriller into indigestible jelly %u2013 it wobbles formless for a while, finally settling into the shape of a duck
04/21/07
Sem conseguir convencer o espectador do básico (a onipresença do número 23), o roteiro chega a apelar para absurdos para tentar provar sua lógica tortuosa.
03/25/07
...tombe dans pratiquement tous les pièges dans lesquels le genre se complait mollement depuis déjà plusieurs années
03/24/07
While it's often fun watching Jim Carrey handle more serious material the same cannot always be said of director Joel Schumacher.
03/17/07
Pretty much every important date in history...can be teased to fit the pattern. What can't be hammered out of this fixation, apparently, is a coherent movie.
03/13/07
Top Critic Schumacher is as much to blame for this mess as Carrey is. Over and over again, he mistakes looming shadows and manic outbursts for tension, and his ponderous, ham-fisted directorial style creates more questions than it answers.
03/10/07
I think that "The Number 23" is supposed to have a twist at the end.But a twist is supposed to be something that you can't see coming, something that takes you by surprise. In this sometimes entertaining but mostly befuddling film, the only confounding el
03/09/07
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