This film is not just bad. And it's not your usual trash movie. It is so pointless, so worthless, there is nothing to fill its emptiness and to redeem 2 hours of my life wasted watching it.

There is no story, no ending and no meaning. There is just a bunch of schizophrenic plots that lead nowhere. Anyone contributed to this movie should be banned from movie-making forever.

Moreover, even its genre is misleading. There is NO horror and NO fantasy. Whoever titled it like this is a liar. I watched it solely because of the genre thus I was shamelessly cheated into wasting my life.

There are too many good movies out there to choose this garbage over any of them.

Thematically, structurally, and in the way it ambiguously employs the fantastic, this is a film akin to another Brazilian film from 2022, "Raquel 1:1."

Both address the themes effectively (yes, these are crazy people), feature excellent performances by young actors, skillfully intertwine the coming-of-age aspects with the uncertainties and certainties of age, are visually inspiring and thought-provoking to an equal extent, falling slightly short of fully exploring their enormous potential.

Trimming off 20 minutes would make this film more narratively coherent. A different ending might be desired by many. Yet, I can't overlook all the great things it does so well, both in terms of what it has to say (and especially how it does it) and in its highly commendable technical aspects. The main lead is brilliant.

With a running time of over two hours, Medusa was in need of some serious editing. A group of eight women are vigilantes at night, wearing white masks while dishing out beatings to those in need of punishment for their sins. The unworthy are made to repent while promising to reform while dedicating the rest of their lives to Jesus.

Mari(Mari Oliveira) is the lead actress and she is the only positive aspect of this tedious and drawn out story.

Mari ends up working at a hospital for comatose patients and things go from bad to worse for the young nurse. I saw this posted as horror and I was waiting for a something scary to happen and it never did.

Medusa is a bore fest.