JohnnyLee1 Worth watching for Jim Carrey's performance. Incredibly well-produced. The story? Depends on your personal taste. Some people will love all the hidden meanings and fatalism of the numbers (numerologists?). But even if you're not into the character's obsession the mood of the piece will carry you along. For a plot that depends on the logic of numbers though it is highly irrational!

areatw I'm a big fan of Jim Carrey and am normally happy to watch any film of his. This one being the only exception. 'The Number 23' is the first Jim Carrey film that I have watched and hated. It is centered around a conspiracy theory that, in itself, is just plain ridiculous. I couldn't take any of it seriously.Aside from the stupid plot, 'The Number 23' is also a tediously dull movie. It moves at a snail's pace at the best of times, in fact most of the time it does no moving at all. It's repetitive and goes nowhere. Less than half an hour in and I already couldn't wait for it to finish. Carrey himself doesn't do much wrong, but he doesn't exactly shine either. How can he with such dreadful material?

moonspinner55 The paranoid-obsessive behavior of a canine control officer (i.e., dog-catcher) worries his wife and son after a book his spouse has given him begins taking over his life. The tome of 'fiction' in question, self-published under a pseudonym and entitled "The Number 23", involves a detective with a kinky brunette and a suicidal blonde, the latter of whom is convinced everything that happens in life links back to the number 23. Some quick arithmetic leads our protagonist to discover the most important dates in his life directly or indirectly form 23...but soon the novel becomes a murder story. It's a case of life imitating literature but, unfortunately, not a film imitating art. Director Joel Schumacher's psychological thriller is well-produced and well-crafted without being very good. Jim Carrey, with haunted eyes and not a trace of personality, arduously underplays in the lead (with both pets and detectives figuring prominently in the narrative, his casting almost seems like an in-joke). Carrey is outshone, anyway, by Virginia Madsen at his wife, while the twists and turns of this story lead us down a depressing road, capped by a thud of an ending. *1/2 from ****

tiskec I think that most people will find this movie very interesting. Jim Carey really puts on a really good performance in this particular film, seeing how he rarely ever does anything except comedy or drama. He pulled off the part as a typical husband and father pretty well. Wait, or was that what he was? This movie is a huge twister.All these stories are twisted up into one plot. They're all about the same man, and they all come from this book, written by some guy that used the alias "Topsey Crets." Laaaaammme. In this novel, Jim Carey's character becomes more and more obsessed with the number 23. He starts to see it everywhere and in everything. It slowly drives him into insanity. The movie has really good all around acting and will sit good as a descent horror/mystery film. It gets predictable at the end, but Jim Carey becomes bad-ass in this movie. It really bring out the nut job in him, and he fits it well. This movie will blow your mind. You haven't seen obsession until you've seen this movie.