Peter Travers (of Rolling Stone) declared the film the year's worst star vehicle on his list of the Worst Movies of 2007, while Colm Andrew of the Manx Independent said the film "delivers a rambling, confusing narrative with only a few stylistic elements thrown in".įor his performance, Jim Carrey was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor at the 2008 Golden Raspberry Awards, but lost the award to Eddie Murphy for Norbit. The script from novice writer Fernley Phillips comes in the same vein of the conceptual twist/reality bender film that Shyamalan fairly much created with the success of The Sixth Sense (1999). 7 in his list of the worst (Roeper did not include it in his list). The Number 23 is clearly Joel Schumacher’s attempt to make an M. However, Michael Phillips, filling in for Ebert on the Worst of 2007 show (aired January 12, 2008) put 23 at No. The ad campaign for today’s entry in My Year Of Flops, 2007’s The Number 23, went out of its way to depict 23 as history’s greatest monster, worse even than Jimmy Carter. The Number 23 is clumsy, unengaging, and mostly confusing." Of the few critics who liked the film, Richard Roeper and critic George Pennachio of KABC-TV in Los Angeles stand out, as they gave the film a "2 thumbs up" rating on the television show Ebert & Roeper (Pennachio was standing in for Roger Ebert due to Ebert's recent illness). The film has been panned by critics, with a current rating of 8% on Rotten Tomatoes and a consensus stating "Jim Carrey has been sharp in a number of non-comedic roles, but this lurid, overheated, and self-serious potboiler is not one of them.
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