To his credit, Mr. Scott doesn't bother with the usual red-tinted strip club scenes (note to filmmakers: if you've seen one pole dance, you've seen them all), though he does point his camera up Mallory's skirt a few times to give us a gander at Ms. Stewart's rear.
Michael Lantieri, mechanical effects supervisor for the 1912 scenes, noted the difficulty in shooting the train sequence.
VanDerWerff wrote positively of "most of the Scully scenes", noting that Anderson "found some of the raw sense of hope and loss" that the shots required.
The authors accused the film of erasing women from the introductory scenes, noting that Leeloo's reconstruction marked only the second appearance of a female in the film's first 20 minutes; the other is an androgynous speechless Presidential aide.
The Philadelphia Inquirer spoke positively about the action scenes, noting the "epic shootouts that bookend Hard-Boiled, John Woo's blood-soaked Hong Kong gangster extravaganza, are wondrously staged, brilliantly photographed tableaux".
In a retrospective of the first season in Entertainment Weekly, "Roland" was rated a B+, with guest star Željko Ivanek's portrayal of the eponymous Roland being called " astonishing (and convincing)", and the episode's "excellent death scenes" noted as highlights.
"We'll need eight hard hats for this scene," notes Emily Hall.
As Stephen Tanzer, an astute observer of the wine scene, notes in his newsletter, International Wine Cellar: "Many American wine retailers are in very shaky financial condition today, as they attempt to work off high inventory levels in a slow market.
"We were looking for the right raw material to appear on the scene," notes McNamara.
"Bamboo bikes are starting to get a lot of attention on the international scene," notes Danso, the chief executive officer of Booomers International, a two-year-old, bamboo-bike-building subsidiary of the Yonso Project, a grassroots community-development organisation in Ghana.
