Poor Script Ruins a Promising Concept

Rating: 4/10 (23 February 2007)

Before going to see The Number 23, I had read all the negative reviews, but the preview looked so good, I went to see it anyway. For 2/3 of the film, I thought the film was pretty good. The last third is so preposterous, it really ruined the film. I left the theater feeling cheated.
You would think that Jim Carrey, Virgina Madsen, and both their agents would have told them the script needed to be fixed. Besides the really stupid ending, the attempts at humor are really lame. Everything that is wrong with this film could have been fixed before they started filming. It's hard to believe anyone could have read the script and thought this would be a successful movie. It's a shame, because this could have been a really good film.