Gia

The story of Gia Carangi is truly alarming and however artistically rendered, a film inspired by her downfall is important. It's nice to see in retrospect how great Angelina did as a Gia back then, helped many future lesbians by coming out, and also showed other kinds of love to other people. However, in this form, the romance with Sandy Linter, unfortunately, served only as a cover for a much more important message about the devastating environment of modeling, about the overindulgence that led to drugs and later to contracting AIDS. A full decade before Freddie Mercury, Gia became one of the first celebrities to die from an invisible gamble with life. Gia lived too fast, and it took her two years of shooting covers for Vogue and Cosmo to wade through the mud for the next six years. And that's the main downside of this film. Angelina is not very believable as a naive 18-year-old and we only see a fraction of the worst moments of Gia's life. Still, it's good enough for an HBO television blockbuster. (14/08/2019)

In terms of script or direction quality, it's essentially an average TV movie. However, its heroine is a famous supermodel, a woman living a scandalous lifestyle, and a so-called celebrity. So, viewers can marvel at the glitz of the modeling world, beautiful girls, and last but not least, Angelina Jolie in the lead role. Not that she's such a great actress, but she does fit the role of a glamorous, slightly twisted beauty. Overall impression: 60%. (18/06/2006)

Let's face it, there isn't really that much evidence that Angie is truly a great actress because often she just played in the mainstream where those abilities aren't so apparent, but Gia shows how captivatingly spontaneous, tender, beautiful, and ugly she can be and how she's not afraid of it. It's her gig. (29/03/2017)

Gia is one big movie concert by Angelina Jolie, whom I’ve never seen play this seriously. But I felt that the movie was just about Angelina’s acting talent. It’s obvious that the movie is one big tragedy from the beginning till the end and it crumbles down as fast as a house of cards. (06/06/2013)