51.   The early combat scenes have an immediacy and disorienting vividness that ranks right up there with prime Oliver Stone.

52.   The early scenes have a burned-out, faded-yellow tinge.

53.   The early scenes show David wallowing gleefully in the gargantuan millennial equivalent of a Playboy penthouse.

54.   The energy that made the early scenes crackle lapses into bothersome static as the script loses its way.

55.   The early scenes with Hill drag as she agonizes over whether to come forward.

56.   The Marshes are just beaming with love in the early scenes.

57.   The problem is that the early scenes play like acting exercises, specifically ones in which the performers are told to talk around what they actually want.

58.   The second half, unfortunately, takes the ape man to civilization and loses all the magic created in the early scenes.

59.   These early scenes have a drab documentary style.

60.   They came up with an approach that included a touch of humor in the early scenes of the film.