10 Awesome Movie Trailer Moments That Were Cut From The Film
9. Jason Statham Deflects A Rocket With A Tea Tray - The Transporter
The original trailer for Jason Statham's 2002 star vehicle The Transporter features a gloriously absurd moment which was infuriatingly left out of the final cut.
The snippet in question shows Statham's highly-skilled mercenary Frank Martin having a gigantic rocket fired at his face, only for him to use a nearby tea tray to, er, deflect the damn rocket away from him.
It's a ridiculous moment, for sure, but completely in tonal step with the rest of the movie, which is hardly a bastion of gritty, plausible action.
Despite its show-stopping placement in the trailer, the scene was reportedly cut due to none other than Statham himself, who felt that audiences simply wouldn't believe such a physically impossible act.
Again, it's a Transporter movie - isn't the Looney Tunes absurdity the entire point? Compared to some of the truly deranged shenanigans in the next two sequels, altering a rocket's course with a breakfast tray is the pinnacle of grounded realism.