Bodies At Rest - keeping spirit of Hong Kong cops and gangsters movies alive

Hostage thriller Bodies At Rest manoeuvres a single night of sneaky twists, suspenseful near-escapes, chases, fistfights and shattering glass in a single location. PHOTO: GOLDEN VILLAGE PICTURES PTE LTD
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SINGAPORE - On a stormy Christmas eve, a pathologist and an intern are working the graveyard shift when three masked gunmen break in to retrieve an incriminating bullet from a corpse. There will be plenty more dead bodies by the end of the violent siege.

It is Die Hard in a morgue.

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