All the dumb math to get 23s made the script feel too forced

So according to this movie, you don't have to actually achieve the number 23. You can get any multiple of 2 and any multiple of 3, reduce to the 2 and 3 and say "23!" or you can get 3 and 2, and then say "and 32 backwards is..." Wow man, if I can reduce anything to 2s and 3s, and I can even flip the numeric order like that, then essentially I can come to the number 23 in every god damn thing in my life. But wait, there's more, they do the same thing with multiplication and division too. "No, that doesn't work, that's 92..." "But what's 92 divided by 4?" "23!!!!"

Well damn, man, you're right. If you have a number that's too high, let's start subtracting numbers, or divide it to get it closer to 23. The writer is a bit of a goofball who seems to ignore the fact that if you can't uniformly do it using the same operations, then it's not really much of a parlor trick. If I can multiply two numbers and add another 2 numbers and work them all together, or add a few numbers, and then subtract a number, then yeah I'll start seeing a pattern in everything.

Jim Carrey was fairly decent in this role, I'm usually not a fan of Carrey. Though the part where he's walking around trying to play the role of a cop/detective, he failed to convince. The end of the movie was about as realistic as we could have hoped for this movie, and I was pleased to see they wrapped it up with the logical exit, as opposed to the usual Hollywood ending where everyone lives happily ever after and we get to act like stabbing, shooting, and killing people is somehow overlooked by the law.