“Jasper Mall” (** out of four) was a curiously flat and unmoving documentary about a shopping mall in Jasper, Alabama and its declining fortunes in today’s economy. Potentially incendiary look at capitalism, consumerism, and the effects of internet commerce on today’s shopping mall revenue is indifferently handled, as most of the focus is on various shoppers and store workers and their own lives, instead of the mall itself. As a result, film meanders and never comes to life. You can only imagine what the Michael Moore of “Roger And Me” or the Charles Ferguson of “Inside Job” would have done with interesting material like this.

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