She plays a mail order bride from, um, Delaware, who is brought to Cuba to wed a rich dude played by Antonio Banderas. Considered by some to be Jolie’s worst movie ever, it holds a 12 percent rating on RottenTomatoes and has a sultry poster that looks like it was stolen from the Cinemax dumpster. “Original Sin” (2001) Angelina Jolie plays the mail order bride of Antonio Banderas in the tacky melodrama “Original Sin.” ©MGM/Courtesy Everett Collectio Behind Lara’s eyes was nothing but a shackled actress. But the steely, unshakable character also foreshadowed Jolie’s descent into blandness. Stamping her as an A-lister who can carry big-budget movies was her role as a sexualized video game archaeologist with deadly aim. We’re all held back a little.” “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” (2001) Was this a harbinger of what was to come? Angelina Jolie explored her bland side in “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.” ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Col I think we’re all repressed, a little repressed. “Everybody’s gotta be more than they are. “I don’t think you’re as decent as you seem,” she flirtily told O’Brien. During a promotional appearance on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” Jolie was a witchy cool girl with blue hair that few can remember now. It’s an electric performance that won her her only Oscar, for Best Supporting Actress. She shouts and laughs and kicks and scratches and smokes. In “Girl, Interrupted,” she plays a likable, unpredictable sociopath at a mental hospital who enables Winona Ryder’s character by encouraging her to stop taking her meds.
“Girl, Interrupted” (1999) Angelina Jolie won her first and only Oscar for playing a sultry sociopath in “Girl, Interrupted.” ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy EveĪt 24, Jolie established a pattern she’d often repeat - being the best part of a meh movie. Here are some of Jolie’s best performances - and a few that we’d prefer to forget. Her movies, by contrast, have been a more consistent abysmal-to-fair. The actress, 45, has had a twisty journey from Hollywood wild-child to Madonna-eqsue globe-trotting activist. Sort of like how it’s weird to remember that Angelina Jolie used to wear a vial of Billy Bob Thornton’s blood wherever she went. It’s always weird to remember that Angelina Jolie once won an Oscar.
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