Mall

2014

Drama

1
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 33%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 33% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.9/10 10 1631 1.6K

Plot summary

Malcom's done with his life. Only the noise of Crystal Meth gives him a reason to keep going - everything else it has long regardless. Equipped with a bag full of weapons and self-made bombs, he makes his way to the nearby mall to really stir things up. On his personal war campaign, he not only changes his life radically, but also the fate of other people who are in the wrong place at the same time: a teenager whose favorite pastime is smoking pot in his dreary existence, a housewife, where their best days have been left behind, a greedy businessman whose only desire is to increase his wealth and a depressed pervert.

Director

Joseph Hahn Photo
Joseph Hahn

Top cast

Cameron Monaghan Photo
Cameron Monaghan as Jeff
Gina Gershon Photo
Gina Gershon as Donna
Jamie Noel Photo
Jamie Noel as Lingerie Model
Peter Stormare Photo
Peter Stormare as Barry
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
812.66 MB
1280*536
English 2.0
R
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23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 1
1.63 GB
1920*804
English 5.1
R
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by xrabid_yaoi_fangirlx 5 / 10

Salvageable if you're willing to dig through the crap

Oh dear lord, this kid and his "observations." At first I thought it was supposed to be funny, but after a while, it just got annoying. He was seriously the most obnoxious character in the movie, so it sucks that he was the lead. The writers really nailed the pretentious, "above it all" high school tool who never goes anywhere without his copy of The Catcher in the Rye and an inflated sense of self-worth. He's so full of wisdom! So deep and enlightened! He's there to put the sheep in their places, since he's the only one who knows what's going on! This is like stoner 2.0, the kind of stuff that these guys think sounds so life-changing, like it's never occurred to anyone else, and their sole duty in life is to redirect the miscreants. I'm still not sure this was supposed to be part of the odd, dark humor that seemed to exist throughout the film. If it wasn't, though, I have to imagine the writers *were* that kid. I didn't know B.K. Cannon was in this movie! I was excited to see her for her brief cameo, despite the creepiness of the scene. Vincent D'Onofrio was fantastic, of course, and his scenes, as painful and uncomfortable as they were to watch, saved a lot of the movie. I feel like the entire bit with the bored housewife should have been cut. It added nothing to the movie and played out more like a clunky attempt to metaphorically represent a boy growing up and coming into his sexuality. The pacing died, and I found myself doing other things with the movie playing in the background. Honestly, if all of that had been removed, it would have been a much better film. Those scenes really dragged, and they were so jarring whenever they occurred, total change in tone and atmosphere. It's like you're in the middle of a car chase scene, then it cuts really quickly to Antiques Roadshow.As much as I hated the beginning with the pseudo-intellectual babble, I actually really liked the ending. That saved it a bit. Overall, the film was trying too hard to be artsy and complex, but it did have some interesting moments and some legitimate humor. I give it a resounding "could have been worse."
Reviewed by Amira-Says 1 / 10

Terrible

I made it exactly to the 44:41 mark before I couldn't take anymore. The "special effects" in this film are completely out of place and give the movie a D- feel. Special effects are meant to enhance scenes. They aren't meant to be randomly strung about. The endless and extended monologues at the beginning sound like your typical 22 year old that gets high and feels so "enlightened and smart" that they need to give everyone a big speech. This film is beyond pretentious and it shows. They tried to thrown in known actors, but even they can't save this mess.
Reviewed by OJT 5 / 10

Stylish and talented, though not fulfilled

The first part of this film hooks you on. Stylish and well photographed, and able to keep you interested. But that doesn't go all the way. The film loses it's way due to some very disillusioned and sick people inhabiting the mall.A disillusioned young man living at home in his mothers trailer goes on a hateful rampage on a mall. At the mall we find several persons doing their everyday thing, as the observant college student Jeff which really is smart, but still wasting his life on the mall, not caring enough not if he should take an Ecstasy pill or not. More shouldn't be told before you watch it.Because I think it's worth seeing. There are some very talented stuff here, though there are scenes pulling down the great stuff built up in the start. It seems like the story is not sure of what it's supposed to tell. There's also too much use of slow motion, and the young boys narrative voice, when thinking.This is the first feature film directed by Linkin Park-DJ Joseph Hahn, and his music video past is quite obvious. Some clear talent, but the film should have had more work put into the script. The film isn't at all what you think it is, and that is a main problem.
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