Oh boy, it looks like
Joel F*** Schumacher has done it again. Looking at the reviews that are coming in for his latest movie
The Number 23, it sounds as if the flick is the worst movie this year. For those who thought he couldn't get worse than
Batman and Robin, the rating on
Rottem Tomatoes for The Number 23 is even lower than that!!! Here are the critics reviews...
"Gimmicky numerology plus Jim Carrey minus narrative coherence equals The Number 23." -Justin Chang - Variety
"Patchy thriller that has the occasional lively moment but is mostly confusing, tedious nonsense". - Matthew Turner - View London
"Narrated in voice-over by the hero, the movie is an object lesson in the dangers of having a storyteller who manufactures his own logic". - J.R. Jones - Chicago Reader
"One of the many mysteries about the number 23 is why Jim Carrey and director Joel Schumacher thought audiences would share their fascination over the mysteries about the number 23" - David Germain - Associated Press
"Drained in style, Schumacher's film is a sensless, incoherent psychological thriller burdened with a neat ending that must have been imposed for commercial considerations" - Emmanuel Levy - Emmanuellevy.com God, I could go on and on with the amount of bad reviews this thing is getting. At the time of writing, the rating is at 8% with only ten reviews out of 122 having anything good to say about the flick. Most people are saying the film gets tedious very quickly with all the references to the number 23 (which was what I said about the trailer) and that
Jim Carrey gives the most uncomfortable performance of his career.... at least that's how the kind reviewers put it. Interestingly, the movie has pulled in a 7.4 rating on IMDB, which is quite a decent rating. That's from 592 votes. Usually the Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB rating match up quite well, but not it seems for this thing. Anyone planning on seeing this movie this weekend? source -
rotten tomatoes