The critics got it wrong again

Rating: 10/10 (8 June 2009)

This movie is about our kind trying to recover their lost humanity fighting this hopeless war for so many years. The atmosphere is very bleak, there is very limited hope. Even Connor is not an inspiring leader, not to mention the fact that Connor is not even the leader, which is a new, not bad at all element.
Most likely the Command are left over submarine commanders who were in much better shape to lead the resistance due to the armament and their stealth capability. Of course Connor has street cred but he has not mastered the soul of the resistance yet.
He is not sure, neither anybody is, why it is worth fighting this war. What makes us better than those machines. He just knows that we have to fight, but not really why. Then comes the _real_ protagonist. He is a criminal with a chip in the head. but somehow due to a glitch in his ... design, his humanity prevails. Skynet does not expect it: why would a perfect machine chose the imperfection of the human spirit over the perfection of being the ultimate infiltrating machine?
And right there Connor learns his most important lesson, that what makes us human is sacrifice and doing what's moral, not what appears optimal. That's humanity's Salvation.
McG totally rebooted the series and he gave it an unexpected spin. The whole wooden acting, the lack of emotion, lack of connectedness is on purpose. These are people that have been deprived of their humanity, their emotion. They have falsely learned that they have to be more like the machines in order to defeat them.
Yes the editing sucked, but I am sure McG will be exonerated in the director's cut version.
The critics got it totally wrong and this won't be the first time, see for example "Starship Troopers" ...