There might be a SPOILER in this one: It's not a waste of money on my part, but.

Rating: Null/10 (8 November 2004)

Warning: there might be a spoiler.
This movie is like a bowl of mush, mystery meat, or digital cartoons. The farther you are from it, the prettier it is or the more enticing and the closer you get to it, the more mystery and mushier and unknown it looks. It's like looking at the TV screen and looking at it upclose, you can't see the whole picture but looking farther away, you can see the whole picture.
The gore is awesome, because you can never get enough of gore. I liked the fact they were creative, added humor into it with the elevator scenes and the characters were very different from each other because of their personalities. I just didn't like the fact that the movie didn't touch base on the characters so much that we didn't get attach to them/relate to them.
All I have to say is that, it was tiring living those days and nights with them at the mall for such a long time (not really knowing how long they were there for, days? weeks? months?!) and then come to find out where they actually ended up. You're not really sure if it's an open ended store, or there were three conclusions at the end or what, but I wans't happy with it. The ending was short, BRIEF, fast, like a quick suicide or something but then after the movie, there were credits, and then you see an epilogue and THAT I did not like. Why bother wasting your money on building on a set at the mall and all your time and effort and come to find out you're going to end up with such a lousy conclusion of a story? There were so many other ways to deliver the movie.
I didn't like the ending at all because it was inevitable. Unsatisfactory. The title itself is poetic, yet I felt the movie was far from poetic. Although, I was very inspired by the bits in pieces of how they created the movie from the architectural design of the mall, the creativity on the make up to make the zombies look more human and real, and the characters were interesting. But, like I said, the movie itself was unsatisfactory to me, but the props to create the movie was great. They delivery wasn't, but the creation was.