Dreadful, taking itself far too seriously.

Rating: 1/10 (4 March 2007)

I'd guessed the trick ending before I even got to the cinema just from watching the trailer, but after they'd exhausted the mathematical computations of 23 in the first half hour, the film just completely lost it's way en route to a predictable and contrived ending. Just because Caesar was stabbed 23 times and Shakespeare was born and died on April 23rd doesn't give the number significance  they may as well have said that Michael Jordan played his whole career in the number 23 shirt and because 2 divided by 3 is 0.666, Michael is the anti-Christ!
It was sad to see Virginia Madsen, who was so good in Candyman and Sideways working with such lumpen material but Jim Carrey is just dreadful, putting in a performance that is even worse than in the 'Ace Ventura' movies  something I didn't think was humanly possible.
This isn't big or clever, it's not serious cinema and it's not worthy of your admission money.