Originally Posted by: R. ShackleferdMotives? Not really...just that it's directed by Oliver Stone if that says anything. I think it says in the trailer that it's based on a true story, or something to that effect. Well duh. But I believe that's stated cuz it's more like a focus of an individual group of firefighters, some of which survive the collapse.

It's based on (and barely veers from) the true story of, I believe, a firefighter and a police officer (could be 2 firefighters?) that survive the collapse of one of the towers. Supposedly the movie is suppose to follow exactly the way the two men told the story after they were pulled from the wreckage. If you're going to accuse a movie of making money off of a national disaster... accuse Pearl Harbor. Cheesy plot lines, bad conveyance of history... and generally an over production of what could have been and should have been a Saving Private Ryan'esque film... It didn't accurately depict anything.

I want to go see World Trade Center before I make any other opinions on it.