Films like Genisys, like its immediate predecessors will be remembered as slick action vehicles. Films that blow shit up with style. But that was never the idea behind the Terminator’s greatness.

As anybody who is a fan of the first two films directed by James Cameron will tell you, there has never been any reason for any film on this subject to have existed beyond the year 1991, since Judgment Day — an apocalyptic event that wipes out much of humanity — was said to have been averted.

However many Terminators are unveiled, the mechanical heart and soul of the series will always be Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800. He’s the android version of earlier, cast-aside operating systems: a Game Boy with a gun. “I’m old, not obsolete,” he says in “Genisys.” And that, surprisingly, is the case. Schwarzenegger’s return to his most iconic role provides much of the appeal of this otherwise purposeless redo.

For series fans, Terminator Genisys will be relished by many. Catch it for Arnie, who’s back, and for some epic action with great background score!

What’s worse than a dumb Hollywood summer movie? A dumb Hollywood summer movie that thinks it’s smart. That’s Terminator Genisys for you, the fifth instalment in a series that should have ended, despite promises made to be back, after the note-perfect second film.

The film smartly plays with the fear of future where given a chance the mother doesn’t want to mate again because she knows what her son has become. It is this magic realism that makes a fantasy play with your realistic fears.

The Inception-like quality to the narrative would probably leave you muddled, but old faithful Arnie fills in the comprehension gaps with some robotic regurgitation of scientific mumbo-jumbo.