Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Although Gia Carangi's biography was good enough to make this movie, I felt as if Angelina Jolie wasn't good representation of Gia. The thing about Gia wasn't just physical beauty that got too emphasized in this movie, but Gia's eyes that showed her vulnerability. This movie lacks a real emotion, that pain which is crucial to make it really work. Angelina is beautiful and she's got some bad girl attitude that helped the movie but she lacks emotion and vulnerability. Mila Kunis showed more emotion playing young Gia than Angelina did. Also Gia's mother played by Mercedes Ruehl wasn't even close to Gia's real mother Kathleen, not only by appearance but by character as well. This movie should be called "Drug addict-supermodel", not "Gia". All it showed is that even beautiful girls get ruined by fashion world. It didn't show a real emotional suffering, real childhood traumas (which in Gia's case were sexual abuse and abandonment by her mother caused by divorce of her parents). It's like seeing somebody's present without really going in depth about their past that made them feeling hurt and abandoned.

I will be completely honest, I wanted to watch this movie because Family Guy: Blue Harvest recommended it, and I already knew the leading actress gets naked in it, but I did hope for a good overall movie as well. Basically it is the fact-based story of Gia Carangi (Golden Globe winning Angelina Jolie), a beautiful dropout from Philadelphia who moved to New York to become a top fashion model. Eleven-year-old Gia (Mila Kunis) had a troubled childhood, with her Italian father Joe (Louis Giambalvo) and mother of Irish and Welsh ancestry, who had a violent and unstable marriage. At age seventeen, Gia was working at her father's diner, then she managed to brashly burst through the doors and catch the attention of powerful modelling agent Wilhelmina Cooper (Golden Globe winning Faye Dunaway). Gia's electrifying personality, attitude, potent sexuality and beauty help to rise quickly to the forefront of the modelling world, she soon finds her way onto the covers of top-selling American magazines. But Gia becomes persistently lonely, and after the death of Wilhelmina she experiments with mood-altering drugs, including cocaine. Gia becomes entangled in a passionate affair with makeup artist Linda (Elizabeth Mitchell), this begins when they pose naked and make love to each other after the shoot. After a while Linda becomes concerned about Gia's excessive drug use, she gives her an ultimatum, but Gia chooses drugs, Gia fails any reconciliation with Linda and her mother Kathleen (Mercedes Ruehl). Gia is driven to start abusing the use of heroin, although she does break her drug addiction habit after much effort, she has already contracted the HIV virus, most likely from a needle containing infected blood, this progresses to full blown AIDS. Gia spends the remainder of her life in hospital, until her death on November 18, 1986, at the age of twenty-six, she was one of the first famous women to die of the disease. Also starring Kylie Travis as Stephanie and Eric Michael Cole as T.J. At the time when she a rising star, Jolie is gorgeous, in and out of clothes, and gives a marvellous performance as the model who had great successful until it ended in her tragic downfall, you can tell the film is made for TV, it does look like a softcore porn movie with the sexual scenes, but it an interesting dark and provocative biographical drama. It was nominated the Golden Globe for Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television. Angelina Jolie was number 74 on The 100 Greatest Movie Stars, and she was number 1 on The 100 Greatest Sex Symbols. Worth watching!

Gia Marie Carangi (Angelina Jolie, Mila Kunis) was born in 1960 Philadelphia and grew up in a broken home. Her mother (Mercedes Ruehl) left her combative relationship with her father. She's volatile and carries a switchblade. At 17, she meets top modeling agent Wilhelmina Cooper (Faye Dunaway). She moves to NYC with boyfriend T.J. but he goes back to Philly. She gets involved with straight-laced photo assistant Linda (Elizabeth Mitchell). She becomes a modeling star. However there is always a need in her that is eventually filled by drugs.This is simply Angelina Jolie in all her glory. She solidifies herself as the most compelling sexually-volatile actress around at the time. The story isn't much and it doesn't have much drama. The movie has a little style but it is tethered to its TV roots. It is a showcase for Jolie and not much more.

The film feels flat from start to finish. Slow boring dragged out storyline. The film starts off with the tone that sleeping around and promiscuity are cool and this women, Gia was OK to do this!? Her behavior is condoned. Nice message! This film is basically another excuse for Hollywood to show soft porn. The lesbian scenes are just.. there to satisfy the male audiences bottomless pit of lust(or so the writer-producers seem to imply in so many films!)Why was this women even made out as a heroine, if this is a correct portrayal, then she was promiscuous, obnoxious, foul mouthed and selfish. Angelina plays that well ,per usual! Oh and great advertising for the smoking industry Angelina! I'm sure people who suffer from cancer will commend you-NOT! The whole film seems full of a bunch of vile shallow creatures. The story is actually empty and void of any soul. Angelina overacts everything. You can't really connect with her. Bits of her neediness seep through, that's the only characterization you get. The romance is bland with no chemistry Angelina Jolie couldn't carry the ' bad girl model attitude'real model . You simply have to look at Canadian supermodels Yasmeen Ghauri and UK's Naomi Campbell to see what real 'sexual power and model attitude' is about. The last 20 mins off the film are a bit interesting and give the film some depth and meaning. we can connect a bit more with gia, but it's a bit late on in the film! Best thing about the film is Eric Michael Cole's beautiful backside shot .Also, for being brave and considerate enough to show two hot guys kissing for once!