The 23 reasons why this movie sucks.

Rating: 3/10 (14 March 2007)

1. Joel Schumacher is one of this director to avoid at all coast : his all filmography is a kind of joke (especialy when he tries to do serious movie : only "Phone Both" was watchable, thanks to the script and original idea of Larry Cohen ).
2. He has ruined the "Batman" franchise for years with is ridiculous and childish version of the Dark Knight, before Christopher Nolan reinvents the character.
3. Jim Carrey is a great actor, but he has to choose his director more carefully (that's the second time he's playing in a Schumacher's movie).
4. "The number 23" is one of this movie that tries to be intelligent and clever, but that just manages to be rather stupid and over pretentious.
5. It only fools the spectator with an apparently sophistical plot, useless complicated dialogs, and multiple but predictable twists.
6. It even quotes Albert Camus : come on Joel, you really think you gonna make us believe that you read more than a summary note of "Le Mythe de Sysiphe" ?
7. It pretends to be original but the all thing is a sort of copy of David Fincher's aesthetic and especially "Fight Club".
8. It's an opportunist and stupid copy, who pretends to be original and clever.
9. First copy of Fincher's : the opening credit, taken from "Se7en".
10. Second copy of Fincher's : the first scene uses the exact same time effect than in "Fight Club" : the movie begins, then the Narrator says that it began earlier, and we go back in time for a second flash back.
11. This effect is absolutely useless in the movie, as well as all the other effects, witch are just here to remind us we're watching a wanna be sophisticated thriller.
12. The thematic of the movie is exactly the one of Fincher's.
SPOILLER ALLER : METAPHORICAL SPOILER, IF YOU HAVEN'T SEE THE MOVIE, GO TO REASON 14 AND IF YOU SAW "FIGHT CLUB" BUT NOT THAT MOVIE, (wich is a very wise choice), GO TO REASON 15 (and if you haven't see Fight Club, go to see it, why are you wondering if you should see "The number 23", while you can see the original thing ?)
13. It's allays the story of a man who looking for evil, in order to fight it, until he realizes that he's the devil he's looking for, and has to kill himself to exorcised it (see "The Gamme", "Alien 3," Fight Club", and... Oh yeah, "The number 23", how strange...)
14. And I'm not even talking about the ending, witch totally belongs to the "Fight Club" universe, and that we saw 10000 times since : it's not new nor original since 1999!!!
END OF METAPHORICAL SPOILER
15. The all obsession about the number 23 is rather ridiculous and never credible.
16. The fictions scenes of the book are equally realistic and grotesque than the others : isn't there something wrong here?
17. The all script is predictable and grotesque.
18. Jim Carrey's wife 's reaction is an absolute nonsense : the spectator doesn't understands the reasons of his obsession, how could she ?
19. And what about her nice best friend, who's ready to do anything in order to help the husband of the woman he loves !
20. In fact, all the secondary characters are barely developed and they are all absolutely not credible (especially his family and his son...)
21. A lot of scene are absolutely not necessary, whereas lots of points are to be develops (especially the way Carrey's becoming obsessed by the book and the number 23...)
22. If I'm putting a 3 and not a 1 to this movie, it's that I also have 23 reasons why I enjoy the movie (a little bit) : and they're all : JIM CARREY. But that only shows the arbitrary of the number once again.
23. Do you really need another reason not to watch this dull and pretentious movie ?