Jim Carrey gets a book from his wife titled The Number 23.
Jim Carrey becomes obsessed with the number 23.
Jim Carrey spends weeks obsessing over reading and finishing a book that should have been completed in one day.
Jim Carrey goes crazy.
Twist.
Twist.
Everything works out.
Happy Ending.

Before you read any further, I do not like Joel Schumacher as a film director. I have not like any of his films beyond The Lost Boys, and The Number 23 is no exception. So yes, there is heavy bias against him on my part.

I don’t know how I will be able to get back the almost 2 hours of my life that I wasted on watching this movie. I know there are plenty of bad movies out there, but there is no excuse for spending millions of dollars on a piece of crap – save that for the people who enjoy making bad movies for no money at all. This is absolutely the worst Jim Carrey (who I like) movie I have ever seen, and the typical schlock that comes from Joel Schumacher. How does this guy stay employed? He might be a nice guy, but he is a lousy director.

The first thing to do as a director before you even make a movie is to figure out whether or not there is a story worth being told; this story was not worth telling. There has already been a great movie about someone losing it after being obsessed with numbers, and that was Darren Aronofsky’s Pi. At least the numbers began to make sense. All of the connections made with the number 23 in the movie are just absurd. The writer(s) should have listened to what they were actually writing in the script as they were writing it. There were several statements to Jim Carrey about the numbers he was becoming obsessed over, that it could be the same with any set of numbers – and that is true. So why even go any further? As a matter of fact, why am even I wasting any more time on writing this review?

So, I guess I won’t waste anymore time writing –

Goodbye