More than star power needed to revive old franchise

JUST when the Terminator franchise looked headed for the scrapyard faster than a 10-year-old car after the last two sequels (2003's Rise of the Machines and 2009's Salvation) failed to live up to its predecessors at the box office, along comes Arnold Schwarzenegger to salvage it.

His return in this fifth outing is much-needed, considering how dull the fourth film was without him. It also exp…