On his birthday, Walter Sparrow, an amiable dog-catcher, takes a call that leaves him dog bit and late to pick up his wife. She's browsed in a bookstore, finding a blood-red-covered novel, a murder mystery with numerology that loops constantly around the number 23. The story captivates Walter: he dreams it, he notices aspects of his life that can be rendered by "23," he searches for the author, he stays in the hotel (in room 23) where events in the novel took place, and he be... (Full plot summary below)
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On his birthday, Walter Sparrow, an amiable dog-catcher, takes a call that leaves him dog bit and late to pick up his wife. She's browsed in a bookstore, finding a blood-red-covered novel, a murder mystery with numerology that loops constantly around the number 23. The story captivates Walter: he dreams it, he notices aspects of his life that can be rendered by "23," he searches for the author, he stays in the hotel (in room 23) where events in the novel took place, and he begins to believe it was no novel. His wife and son try to help him, sometimes in sympathy, sometimes to protect him. Slowly, with danger to himself and to his family, he closes in on the truth.
Leave your thoughts about The Number 23.
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldAn unengaging and colossally dumb occult thriller. |
| Film BlatherEugene NovikovIt's so bad that it almost inadvertently becomes interesting, and the last twenty minutes take the viewer to impressive heights of inexplicable silliness. |
| AV ClubNathan RabinWatching Carrey babble gibberish about the sinister nature of 23 in scene after hyperventilating scene isn't any more fun or enlightening than listening to street-corner lunatics discourse on similar topics. |
| Movie Reviews in CroatianVictoria AlexanderGlaring flaws in the story makes it silly and too contrived to be a good thriller. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerIt makes you want to cover your eyes and clutch your ears. |
| E! OnlineDezhda GaubertNot helping matters are the over-the-top moments so typical of director Joel Schumacher's oeuvre. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderI'll say this much for it: It's funnier than Norbit. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleCarrey owns this movie. He's in virtually every scene, and there's no taking one's eyes from him. |
| Flipside Movie EmporiumRob VauxA silly mess that fails as both a psychological thriller and a camp send-up of the same. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseThough the holes were rather small, I had to count them all. Now we know how many holes it takes to fill The Number 23. |
