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Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

It is a performances centric movie

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

This entertaining television movie kicks off with some news footage of flooding, presided over by a hideously over-acting young woman who's pretending to be a reporter. Meanwhile, a guy is apparently injured in an explosion, but kills the guys who take him to hospital in an ambulance and escapes to a shopping mall which is about to be opened. He meets a group of people and then a dam bursts, leaving them stranded in the flooding mall (cue lots of scenes of water swirling about everywhere).The group is made up of the sheriff's wife, a security guard, the mall's architect, a sporty guy, and another woman who gets to scream loudly. After a mildly tense "who's the killer" scene, the murderer reveals himself to be a young guy who's just left college. Now I don't know about you, but this bloke just isn't that scary. Rob Estes' acting is pretty good, but he just doesn't have the physique or the intelligence to be an interesting bad guy. I mean all he does is shout at his hostages, beat people up, and shoot one person in the back with a harpoon gun. And the victim? It's none over than David Soul, making a rare post-Starsky and Hutch appearance, and a very brief one at that; he's given little more than 10 minutes screen time, so his presence amounts to a cameo. Still, it's good to see him back on our screens.The rest of the cast is made up of mostly unknowns, apart from Estes, who's secured himself dubious 'fame' by appearing on Melrose Place (well, this is a television movie after all). One familiar face I did spot was that of Danny Webb, the man playing the SWAT chief. If he reminds you of somebody, it's because he appeared in ALIEN 3 as the sole survivor of the slaughter on the prison planet. The film is a joint US/German production, and surprisingly a largish portion of the cast sport British accents, including the typical black guy who - surprise, surprise - actually doesn't get killed. I was expecting him to snuff it almost straight away, or bite the bullet at the end of the film, but no, he makes it to the end, even if he does take a beating, and he also seems to be the most intelligent guy in the mall. Right on.The setting, too, is a good one, just as Romero found out when he made his DAWN OF THE DEAD. I don't know why they don't make more action movies in shopping malls, I mean just think of all the possibilities: shops, escalators, ventilation shafts, multiple stories, lots of stairs and open areas for sniping and shoot-outs, loads of glass windows and doors to get smashed. In fact, if I had the opportunity to make a DIE HARD clone, a shopping mall would be my second choice for location, beaten only by a college. But that's another story.There's lots of shouting, arguing, fight scenes, and moments in peril (mostly involving people nearly drowning) to keep things moving along nicely, although I could have done without the lame cut-to-outside scenes which occurred every five minutes or so and showed the police milling around uselessly outside. This just confirms my low expectations of SWAT teams in the films. In THE RELIC, they abseiled into a building and got eaten one after the other; in this film, they enter the building, then a wall collapses and they all have to retreat, heavily injured! It's ludicrous. It would have been cool if David Soul had teamed up with his old partner (they could have been brought out of retirement or something - sweaters and all) to hunt down the villain of the piece. Sadly he died the ignoble death of being shot in the back. Oh well, we can't have everything.TERROR IN THE MALL is hugely generic; there's even a silly sub plot about exploding generators, which is basically an excuse to blow up everything at the end of the piece. However, I was pleasantly surprised by this, seeing as loads of other TV movies in the 'disaster' mould turn out to be hopeless. It's not brilliant or original by any means, but it's good fun and solid family entertainment.

The movie opens at an unbelievably false-looking cardboard model of a new mall. I could almost make out the tiny model figures next to the match-stick crane - just like they might have made on Blue Peter (you have to be a Brit to get that comment).From there it was downhill - a burst dam, an escaped convict, a new mall, an overexcited singer, and the local sheriff's wife (who for some unknown reason was in the mall the day before it opened. Good job she turned out to be a doctor too though...), a large toxic methane leak from underneath the mall which somehow managed to be strongest right by the generator... good job that everyone had managed to escape by the time it all blew up, eh?Towards the end of the film, it stopped raining. I assume this was a coincidence as it didn't have any relevance to the plot. Just happened to not be raining the day they filmed that scene.Even given the amusement factor of the poor acting, diabolical effects and pathetic script - I still can't give it higher than 1/10.

This film is so bad that my sister walked in the room and asked me if it was a spoof. I wasn't sure. I mean it can't be serious can it? I mean how many holes can a plot have? it most likely will make you laugh (cause its so dire) and cry (cause its so dire.) Its surprising to see how a reasonably competent actor as Daniel Webb (Alien 3, brookside) could A) be so poor B) act in this trashy, souless, tripe. Watch only if friends are present and lost of alchol are involved.

This is a no-movie, without action, with bad actors and actresses, no script and a lot of beautiful scale models for destroy... no visual effects, is just a film for look the saturday morning when you can be sleeping... And after all the bad guy has an harpoon that can reload from no where!