Chasing Ghosts

Movie Review

Melissa R. Mendelson
It's been years since that day passed, and the darkest moment of my life was believed to be buried six feet deep. But now secrets have dug their way to the surface, and the eye of suspicion is looking for me. And my time is running out, and the more I run from the past, the more it will hunt me down.

We can never turn back the clock. We can never take back the wrong words said or the actions that sliced so deep. All we can do is to forget, and maybe some will find redemption. But in the end, karma will be waiting.

And justice remains blind. We know the wrong we've done, and still we believe that we can escape it. We look for scapegoats to carry off the blame, so we can tell ourselves that our slate is clean. And we can go on living, but in the nights, where we search for sleep, those dark moments are waiting to remind us of what we've done. And we sleep no more, and maybe that is justice.

"If you don't catch up to your past, it will catch up to you." There is no escape from it, and with every step taken toward the future, the past will still walk with you. And if you fear to face it, your secrets will still find its way out into the world through the hands of another, and there will be no escape. And the life feared to be lived will become the future that you walk to.

Our darkest moments define us, and its memory will linger over time. When we close our eyes, it waits to play over and over again like a broken record, and we can't shut out its voice that fills our ears. And we are left being chased by the ghost of our past, and it won't let us forget. It won't let us rest until we tell what we have done, a lesson that one detective will soon learn.

A vicious murder falls into the lap of Detective Harrison, a conflicted character haunted by his past. This is to be his final case, but as the pieces of a puzzle begins to follow the bodies that surface, he will find himself being pulled backward, retracing a moment of his life that he wished to forget. And as the killer remains on the loose, questions over the disappearance of the detective 's partner will begin to to have an answer, an answer that could change everything and everyone, and time has started to count down to the moment, where the detective must choose between secrets believed to have been buried and justice waiting.

Chasing Ghosts is a true blend of mystery, suspense, and drama. Through the depth of Michael Madsen and the brilliance of a talented cast of actors, we are thrown into a plot, where the characters must solve a deadly game before it's too late, and one man is left clinging to his past, afraid to let go. And as the twists and turns keep on coming, the storyline becomes a rollercoaster of conflict and intrigue, pulling you down into an ending that you never expect. And you will be left haunted by one chasing ghosts.

Published by Melissa R. Mendelson

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