10 Recent Movie Trailers That Gave Too Much Away

10. F9

The first trailer for F9 was dropped in January 2020, around four months before it was due to release, and offered up an over-generous four-minute blow-out of the movie's major beats.

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Though it doesn't give everything away, the trailer details most of the big action sequences, reveals a ton of cameos and surprising moments, and most criminally, gives away the return of the presumed-dead Han (Sung Kang).

It didn't help that F9 ended up being delayed by over a year due to the pandemic, and so audiences had to sit on this excess of information for ages before the film was finally released.

Naturally Universal released several more trailers prior to release which only inundated audiences with extra footage, such that by the time the film hit screens, most of the money shots had already been spoiled ad nauseum.

Criminally, the final trailer even confirmed that Roman (Tyrese Gibson) and Tej (Ludacris) fly a rocket-propelled car into space.

Imagine how awesome it would've been for both this and Han's return to have been kept entirely out of trailers. Instead, watching F9 felt like witnessing a 143-minute foregone conclusion.

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