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(1 - 44) of 44 OFCS Rating: 2% Rotten Page   1   C- "The film operates on a much broader scale than it has any business doing, thus the answers, when they are finally provided in the now-obligatory talky final ten minutes, are frustratingly bankrupt."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark D+ "It's a constipated thriller; a delusional pinch of misdirection and screenwriting runaround that should've been a bottle rocket to the brain, but instead suffocates in style and a lack of imagination."   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf D- ""The Number 23" is a movie that doesn't believe in itself."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "Suicide Blonde's intensity, her fear, her too-white dress and room and lighting, her violent death: it's all a little much."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/5 "If you circle every 23rd word in this review, you'll wind up with a message that makes no sense. Neither does paying to see this movie."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 2/4 "While it's often fun watching Jim Carrey handle more serious material the same cannot always be said of director Joel Schumacher."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth 2/4 "...ultimately undone by its thoroughly absurd premise..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 1.5/4 "One of the last lines uttered in The Number 23 is, 'It may not be the happiest of endings, but it's the right one'. Try the wrong one."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman C "I'll say this much for it: It's funnier than Norbit."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 "While conspiracy theorists search for the ultimate meaning of the integer at the center of it, someone should have paid more attention to the words."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress D+ "It's so bad that it almost inadvertently becomes interesting, and the last twenty minutes take the viewer to impressive heights of inexplicable silliness."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov "... the film astoundingly reaches new levels of unintentional self-parody with every turn."   DVD Review   Felix Gonzalez Jr. 2/4 "Schumacher's numerical nightmare is an anemic psychological thriller basking in contrivance...woefully muddled and lacking...the math doesn't quite add up."   TheWorldJournal.com   Frank Ochieng D "A big fat zero...an exhaustingly busy cinematic puzzle, this year's Butterfly Effect--but even less entertaining."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/5 "A psychological thriller that is a murky mess."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2/4 "The movie isn't sufficiently lurid or campy to be enjoyable on an exploitative level and it's not well enough crafted to work as a more serious form of entertainment."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 1.5/5 "An overworked horror-thriller based on an absolutely ridiculous concept that, at various points in the movie, comes tantalizingly close to working."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 2/5 "Greater than the terror that Jim Carrey's character...feels in the course of The Number 23 may have been that which Carrey and his castmates felt midway through production as the glowering awfulness of this project began to dawn on them."   Boxoffice Magazine   Jay Antani 5/10 "Has mostly superficial thrills on its mind, playing with a number and a character's psychology but not really saying anything about them."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 5/10 "What could have been an intriguing psychological drama turns into a mediocre crime thriller."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio "The Number 23 is just a sordid exercise for a comedy actor to stretch his dramatic muscle."   Light Views   John Larsen "Pretty much every important date in history...can be teased to fit the pattern. What can't be hammered out of this fixation, apparently, is a coherent movie."   Film.com   Jonathan F. Richards 2/5 "full review in Greek"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 1/4 "My biggest complaint was how this story just completely fell apart in about 40 minutes. I wanted to feel sorry for Walter, but all I could do is shake my head and laugh."   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 2/5 "...drops all kinds of ridiculous into the story line, all of which could have been forgiven if they weren't so blatantly swept under the rug..."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Karina Montgomery 2/5 "If I wanted to give director Joel Schumacher more credit than he deserves, I'd say that he purposely blew the film up at the 2/3 mark just to make the film a prophecy."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr D "...it's as if debuting screenwriter Fernley Phillips was too lazy to even rip off second rate King."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Laura Clifford D "With its glaring plot holes, over-reliance on coincidence and unexplained central conceit, it is hard to fathom why this project drew the likes of Jim Carry and Virginia Madsen."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/4 "[The film] squanders a promising premise and a lot of cool special effects on a story that gets more ridiculous and less involving with each passing minute."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 2/4 "Schumacher's style is too slick, his sense of the macabre too watered-down, and his concentration on the thematic implications of the story too distracted by more generalized ideas to really get at the dark heart of the material."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik C- "Carrey has difficulty playing inner torment without making it look funny, an issue magnified by...director Joel Schumacher's concessions to utilizing the actor's skills to get laughs."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "It cannot abide ambiguity or abstraction, feels a desperate need to square all corners and turn over all stones -- it refuses to embrace the very supranormal scariness it wants us to consider..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2.5/4 "The Number 23 is the movie equivalent of a parlor trick. It's cool to see and it can pleasantly catch you off guard, but there's ultimately not much to it beyond its own sense of trickery."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan C "There are 23 things wrong with this movie. Or maybe there are 24. Or 165. To be honest, I lost count."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 1/4 "This review's opening sentence, the really dull, pointless one that you are reading at this very moment, is comprised of exactly 23 words."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 1/5 "Sem conseguir convencer o espectador do básico (a onipresença do número 23), o roteiro chega a apelar para absurdos para tentar provar sua lógica tortuosa."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 1.5/5 "The Number 23 is goofy, implausible, and funny in all the wrong ways."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 2.5/5 "There's enough style, intrigue and plot twistiness in this thriller to keep us watching"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline D+ "A silly mess that fails as both a psychological thriller and a camp send-up of the same."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux "Let's cut to the chase: Movies don't get much more dunderheaded than Joel Schumacher's semi-psychological thriller The Number 23."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 4/10 "A murky, flawed thriller that just doesn't add up."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 2/10 "So much cascading hatred for the audience runs through the flickering images of this film!"   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 1/4 "It's fair to wonder what kind of numbers drive him to set sail with sub-standard ships captained by deficient fools."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 44) of 44 OFCS Rating: 2% Rotten Page   1