Wow that was some HEAVY narration...

For the first 10 to 20 minutes the narration was getting annoying, by the end, I wanted to yell "we can see that there are two New York police officers on the building" you don't need to TELL us that there were now "two New York police officers on the building".

I got so accustomed to the narration that when the wheel came off the cart (when they got out of the elevator onto the 100th floor), I expected JGL to either tell us that "the wheel came off the cart" or cut to a shot of him on the Statue of Liberty telling us that "at this point, the wheel came off the cart".

"The officer left his phone on the chair"
-- shot of officer's phone on the chair.

"The cops were still looking around while we were sitting on the metal beam"
-- the cops can be heard looking around while the characters are seen sitting on the metal beam.

Even the scene where the cop interrogates them in the van, it was clear the officer was suspicious. The character didn't need to turn to JGL and tell him that "that cop was suspicious".

Also, at the end, we pretty much knew that there would be something about the 'last 3 steps'...but of course, it had to cut to JGL telling us that this was now "the last 3 steps".

It could've easily cut back to the first time JGL almost falls after he thinks the last 3 steps are easy.

I thought one of the rules of story-telling was 'show don't tell' and that narration is generally frowned upon...(not always, but sometimes)...

I have never seen it used to such an extent as in this film.

It had to have been some kind of 'test audience' suggestion or something because how can professional film makers allow such heavy narration into such a big film??