The Ultimate Puzzle

Release Date: August 27, 2008
Genres: Thriller And Politics/Religion
Cast: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Said Taghmaoui, Neal McDonough, Jeff Daniels
Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Studio: Overture Films

Plot:
Academy Award® nominee Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Crash) and Guy Pearce (Memento, L.A. Confidential) star in Traitor, a taut international thriller set against a jigsaw puzzle of covert counter-espionage operations. Traitor is written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff (screenwriter of The Day After Tomorrow). 

When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn. A mysterious figure with a web of connections to terrorist organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on the scene just as a major operation goes down. The inter-agency task force looking into the case meets with Carter, a veteran CIA contractor who seemingly has his own agenda and Max Archer, a fellow FBI agent. The task force links Horn to a prison break in Yemen, a bombing in Nice and a raid in London, but a tangle of contradictory evidence emerges, forcing Clayton to question whether his quarry is a disaffected former military operative — or something far more complicated. Obsessed with discovering the truth, Clayton tracks Horn across the globe as the elusive ex-soldier burrows deeper and deeper into a world of shadows and intrigue.

Duration : 0:1:13

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Directed by Christian Doherty. Filmed: 1973/Completed: 2008
With Christian Doherty, Tom Soter, Leslie Smith, Kathy Kramer, and Alan Saly as “The Big Guy”
Filmed and edited in 1973, this late Doherty gem sat unfinished until 2008 when, at the instigation of Apar archivist Tom Soter, Tom Sinclair provided a scriptful of words to match the silent action that occurs on screen. Sinclair, who actually created the hero of this movie, Jason Rogers, in a series of short stories in the 1970s, said he “had a blast” writing the dialogue for this absurd thriller and trying to make sense of the jigsaw puzzle of images Doherty had left (Doherty himself could no longer remember the plot). Using the sort of emotionally charged dialogue for which Doherty was known, Sinclair does a fine job of recreating the Apar style – a lot of colorful language and simple-minded plot explanations. The story involves a character known as Bob the (Soter), out for revenge against detective Jason Rogers (Doherty), who arrested his brother years before. There’s a lot of great action, leading off with a ridiculous precredits scene in which Rogers and Bob fire off rounds of ammunition at each other without connecting once, and there are also three women (four if you count the uncredited Marina Saly in a truly bizarre part), all of whom are abused in one way or another by Rogers, a nutcase with a badge. Alan Saly, nearly unrecognizable in a character part, has a memorable turn as Rogers’ chief, “The Big Guy.”

Duration : 0:9:8

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Directed by Christian Doherty. Filmed: 1973/Completed: 2008
With Christian Doherty, Tom Soter, Leslie Smith, Kathy Kramer, and Alan Saly as “The Big Guy”
Filmed and edited in 1973, this late Doherty gem sat unfinished until 2008 when, at the instigation of Apar archivist Tom Soter, Tom Sinclair provided a scriptful of words to match the silent action that occurs on screen. Sinclair, who actually created the hero of this movie, Jason Rogers, in a series of short stories in the 1970s, said he “had a blast” writing the dialogue for this absurd thriller and trying to make sense of the jigsaw puzzle of images Doherty had left (Doherty himself could no longer remember the plot). Using the sort of emotionally charged dialogue for which Doherty was known, Sinclair does a fine job of recreating the Apar style – a lot of colorful language and simple-minded plot explanations. The story involves a character known as Bob the (Soter), out for revenge against detective Jason Rogers (Doherty), who arrested his brother years before. There’s a lot of great action, leading off with a ridiculous precredits scene in which Rogers and Bob fire off rounds of ammunition at each other without connecting once, and there are also three women (four if you count the uncredited Marina Saly in a truly bizarre part), all of whom are abused in one way or another by Rogers, a nutcase with a badge. Alan Saly, nearly unrecognizable in a character part, has a memorable turn as Rogers’ chief, “The Big Guy.”

Duration : 0:6:34

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I completed this Ravensburgers 5000 piece puzzle and ….
UNFORTUNATELY there are two pieces missing and one damaged.
Is there any way to get those 3 pieces … and if not.. WHY NOT?

Duration : 0:1:3

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