Evil dog.

Rating: 7/10 (29 March 2007)

What happens when audiences have seen the same concept a million times over? Naturally, at the point it gets repeated, they get bored, which is why the ending of 23 gets slammed despite the consensus of many that this was a well made effort, in it's initial parts by Schumacher-Carrey and company.
Well? It is, combine it with adequate styling from Schumacher, and his DP Matty Libatique, and hints of Carrey's comedic charm that audiences are so ready to laugh at before things get dark. The film contains absurd attributions to the numerology concept in here, and the twist ending is even more absurd, and again clichéd - but not to say it isn't redeem with a little hope for human potentiality to set things right. Because unlike most movies of its kind, 23 offers us a glimpse of a little of that hopefulness, which is why I want to give a bravo to the writing despite its rotten clichedness... Even if the final shot ends with "resolute ambiguity" that counts for nothing because audiences even applauded when that "ending epigraph" (is that a correct term?) was flashed before credits rolled.
Still, I feel this is an underrated film, and you know my reasons for mentioning why it has some; if any redemptive value.