Could have been good

Rating: 5/10 (22 February 2007)

I saw this last night at a free preview. Not so good. I never felt connected to the number or the process - like in A Beautiful Mind when Russel Crow is making all the connections - you see it too. Not so with the number 23. A lot of the examples didn't even add up to 23. They added up to 34 or had to be divided twice, etc. There is a decent twist, but how it comes about is not believable - it is just thrown out there with no depth. I did like the way the movie is shot and the dark aspect when he is "reading" the book is excellent. It wasn't so bad that I wanted to walk out, but I was glad it was free. This is something for Netflix - not full on stadium seating for 10 bucks.