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Alicia Vikander in Tomb Raider (2018)

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Tomb Raider

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Continuity

After Vogel shoots the sick man and points the gun at Lara, he cocks the hammer back, even though it was already back after firing the shot.
When Lara follows her father to his island hideout she has to scale the sheer face of a cliff after he pulls up the rope he used to get there. When they emerge the next morning they're at sea level.
When Lu Ren declares that he's going after Lara, one of the people who joins him is the guy that Vogel shot and killed earlier.
At the end when Lara runs to escape the destruction of Himiko's tomb, she doesn't encounter any of the myriad traps she had to negotiate when entering the tomb.
When Lara is in the locker room, she's eating an apple. She's taken at least two bites out of it. But when Harry comes in, she has the apple in her mouth, and hasn't taken a bite out of it... and it's clearly a different apple, for It has different coloring.

Factual errors

After falling in the river Lara ends up on a wrecked and rusted WWII aircraft laying across the river. Metal aircraft arr made from aluminum, as iron is way too heavy. This would not result in a brown rust patina as shown, but would be white, as aluminum turns white when it oxidizes.
Lara's father has been missing for 7 years. Yet when she finds his research cave the battery on the video camera is fully charged.
Upon returning to the excavation site, Lara shoots the first guard with an arrow. The arrow hits the machine gun armed guard high in the left chest, well left of the neck and just beneath the clavicle. The guard reacts by immediately collapsing without yelling or trying to send out any sort of an alarm. The are no vital structures in this area and would not be a lethal wound, much less one that would drop the guard where he stood without the ability to respond in any way. The same is true of other guards that she hits in similar non-vital areas.
At the end of the film Lara goes back to the Pawn shop to get the green amulet and buys two guns. The sale of handguns was banned in the UK so this would not have happened.
The parachute that deploys is a round canopy. Unlike the modern-day ram-air canopies that fly rapidly forward due to their airfoil's shape at 25-50 mph, round canopies simply trap air and come straight down. Even with some tears in the canopy to vent air through, thereby creating a jet effect, the canopy would move forward at only a few miles per hour on its own and would require wind to increase its ground speed, of which there is none. Lara appears to be moving 30-40 miles per hour as she descends, which this canopy in these conditions could never do.

Under canopy during the descent, Lara is shown to be moving forward by what is at least 30 or 40 miles per hour, which would be physically impossible.

In addition, an inflated canopy such as this would have snagged on the tall trees that she is flying through long before she had progressed to the point of hitting the ground.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

Vogel keeps saying he hasn't had anyone to talk to for seven years, and yet he has his own private army, and regularly talks to them. But he clearly meant meaningful conversation with more intelligence than hoodlum mercenaries.

Revealing mistakes

When Lara pulls the ripcord on the parachute pack as she is falling from the WWII Japanese bomber, sparks come shooting out of the ripcord housing. There are no explosives contained here or any other reason for that to occur.

Miscellaneous

Lu Ren had the same name as his father. However, it would be very odd in Chinese culture for a father to name his son after himself.
Assuming the Chinese character Lu Ren's name is set up the correct/traditional way where the family (aka "last name") comes first, his Westernized name would be Ren Lu (likely since Lu is a fairly common Chinese surname). However, Lara calls him "Lu" multiple times. The Crofts are often addressed only by their last name by other characters, but this would be unusual for Chinese characters. However, since this reboot of Lara Croft has her less unbeatable and worldly than her previous film incarnations, it's possible she doesn't realize the structure of Chinese names.
When Lara comes out of the cave she is covered by dust except for her face which is clean.

Crew or equipment visible

When Lara is cycling from the gym at the start of the movie, she passes a side road where traffic control have a visible stop/go sign in use, holding the traffic for the shot.

Errors in geography

Lara is on the Endurance sailing from Hong Kong to Japan, due north east. But when she bids goodnight to Lu Ren and heads to her cabin the ship can be seen sailing towards the setting sun in the west.
When Lara discovers her father's hidden study room in the family crypt, there's a scene showing a world map with various notes and pictures. Near the bottom left there's a photo of the famous "electric light bulb" relief from The Temple of Hathor in Dendera, Egypt, but on this map, the photo is noted with writing on its right side as from India, it's even emphasized with an arrow pointing from a location point on the map of southern India to this photo.
At around 57 minutes, after Lara escapes Mathias (as the scene turns to night), there is a close up of a Bearded Dragon in a tree. This is a desert lizard native to Australia and could not survive the humidity of the island.

Plot holes

While trying to save the "lifeboat" (an Inflatable dingy), they completely ignore the other lifeboat, which is what the white cylinder above Lara's head actually is.

Character error

In the first two films with actress Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, Lara is left handed just as Angelina Jolie is. In this installment with Alicia Vikander, Lara can be seen signing documents with her right hand. This is of course not a mistake. It is far more usual for people to be right-handed. And Lara Croft was never necessarily left-handed.

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