This franchise has taken a lot of heat for not living up to the glory years of its past. Despite new directors and a couple all-star level cast members, the latest entries in the series have been retreading the same dark themes: hopelessness, misery, fate. This installment, however, is a bold step for a franchise that has grown stale.
It picks up just after another brutal chapter in the series, and tells the story is of a dying man giving it one last shot, a feeble child seeking to assert his place in history, a Random Guard rising above his station, and a Bearded Stranger attempting to do the impossible: Save.