I went into this with pretty high expectations since I loved Martyrs and High Tension, movies from France around the same time.
Similar to both those movies, the gore is great. The special effects are really well done. There were many shocking scenes that I have no idea how they did them.
Sadly, the story didn't really manage to grab me. Martyrs had good characters and a great concept. High Tension had great characters and a perfect ambience.
Frontiers ... did not. I never really cared for any of the characters. On the other hand, the bad guys were kind of generic evil Nazis. So even though the blood and gore affected me, it was more of a disgust than feeling sad or fearing for the characters lives.
One little Nitpick from the perspective of a German: They cast a French guy as the old, main guy. I'm not sure if that was the plan, that even the Nazi leader wasn't an actual Nazi but more or less loving the people. But if he was supposed to be German while he tried pretty hard, his German still sounded kind of weird.
All in all, I didn't hate the movie, but I didn't really care for it either. A few times I actually thought about turning it off and just watching something else.
So if you want to get into French horror from the early 2000s, maybe try some of the others and skip this one. I'm rating it 2.5 out of 5 stars because of the great gore and it was pretty well shot.
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