Paramount pays refund over missing explosion

When a New Zealand man identified only as J. Congdon saw an epic explosion in the "Jack Reacher" trailer, he decided then and there he had to see the movie. But the explosion he saw in the trailer didn't appear in the December theatrical release.

Now the film fan has made a complaint of misleading advertising with New Zealand's Advertising Standards Authority, saying the dramatic explosion was edited out of the final film, reports The Telegraph.

Congdon told the authority that "the explosion where the whole cliff comes down was the defining part of the ad that made me really want to go see the movie ... aside from having Tom Cruise in it."

Paramount Pictures admitted the "split-second" cliff explosion was used in the trailer but was cut from the film before it was released, a common occurrence when trailers are released weeks or months before editing is complete.

"Thus, despite our best intentions, it is always possible that certain scenes appearing in an advertisement or trailer may not appear in the final version of a film," the film studio told the authority. "The explosion in question was a single split-second element omitted from a 130-minute long action film."

The authority ruled the complaint settled, as Paramount had offered a ticket refund and the advertisement was no longer airing.