A very big disappointment

Rating: 3/10 (26 February 2007)

The Number 23 is an original idea around the phenomena events and lives circled around the number 23. Although this movie is very intriguing at points, the plot is bland, especially the ending, and throughout the movie, you couldn't feel any connection with the characters. There wasn't any depth in the characters. Furthermore, this has to be the worst performance by Jim Carrey, and I am upset I have to say that, but his performance was boring, monotone, and just awful. Carrey overacted in some parts of the film, it was pathetic. I thought I was watching Charles Nelson Pierce in "Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromawitz". The other actors were OK , but I really don't blame the movie being bad on them; I blame it on Joel Schumacher. I was so convinced that he was over ruining the Batman Quadrilogy with "Phone Booth" and "8MM", but man, what a disappointing movie. The movie was all over the place: the sequences, characters, and story. The whole movie is about the fascination of the number 23 and how it affects peoples's lives, but then one line of dialogue in the middle of the movie contradicts the entire movie. It was just so horribly done, and it almost makes me sick because this movie could have been really good. This movie is a prime example of a great idea gone wrong due to bad directing.