Frontier(s) (2007) review

With social unrest taking place in Paris - due to the potential election of an extreme right-wing politician - several Muslim Arabs, including pregnant Yasmine (Karina Testa), manage to swipe a bunch of loot and then try to flee the country, but make the mistake of stopping at a motel that's managed by neo-Nazi cannibals.  There is a tiny effort to briefly bring up pressing political issues (immigration being a major one) that exist even to today, some sixteen years later (the National Rally party is still going strong), but it mostly takes the easy route of making everything go over-the-top, from the "performances" (there's plenty of screaming and panting) to the shaky camerawork (and annoying rapid cutting) to the gore (bloodletting! a table saw! a blown up head!).  It's an empty if visceral experience (it sure earned that NC-17) that also, perversely enough, has a pro-life message: at least the fetus survived the carnage, right?