"Come with me if you want to live!" What do you say to that? Yes? Almost certainly yes. All the time travelling heroes and villains from the previous films have insanely quotable lines - Arnie’s anthemic "Hasta la vista", Robert Patrick’s intense "Have you seen this boy?", and that thing that metal chick says in number three.

Lesson for McG: That the best films in the series have smart, cool scripts, and if this is all going to come good Bale best make with the iconic dialogue.