The movie kicks
off with a poorly CGI'd (for Zemeckis) shot of the hero
standing in the Statue of Liberty's torch with the Towers looming across the water behind him, talking and talking and talking not to you but at you, often in bizarrely gargoyle -
ish close - ups, about the amazing thing he's about to do, or is doing — as if convincing us to buy a ticket to the film we're already sitting there watching.