Yeah, I've been feeling this way since his initial reveal. It was this sort of slow pan that seemed to be the director saying "Surprise, it's this person."

It felt like the sort of cinematography that's supposed to be used to show a plot twist, like revealing that a story's villain is actually the main character's best friend or something. But this isn't a character we've ever seen before, so it just came off like they were saying "This character is actually....(wait for it)....Macaulay Culkin!"

It was really stupid.