Thus, writhing model-like female bodies in sexy wear abound worse, at one point in a nightclub, two members of this band of female warriors are seen randomly kissing each other, the better to satisfy the audience’s delectation for girl-on-girl sensuality.
But in Fury Road, George Miller never stooped as low as Delamarre does here in objectifying these women while ostensibly applauding them for standing up to their male oppressors. That sounds like we’re on the verge of yet another subversive blast of female empowerment in a genre whose sense of gender representation usually skews male and extremely macho. First introduced on the French Riviera in 1995 in the clutches of thuggish Russian human trafficker Yuri (Yuri Kolokolnikov), Anna (Lona Chabanol) is then seen, 15 years later, as the leader of a band of fellow former prostitutes, all of them now trying to take revenge on the pimp who wronged them long ago. Little time is wasted in establishing the film’s real protagonists. But Camille Delamarre’s film, which mainly exists as an object lesson in trying-to-have-it-both-ways sexism, is no Mad Max: Fury Road redux. The Transporter Refueled is the long-delayed fourth entry in a previously lucrative franchise and, unexpectedly, it’s the one that turns the male hero into something of a sidekick to a group of female heroines.
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