I walked out of the theatre with a strange mix of adrenaline and ache. Not because the story moved me, but because it closed a chapter I grew up living inside.

I didn’t just watch a franchise.
I watched Tom Cruise, year after year run like a man possessed, fight with that fire in his eyes, hang from planes, cling to cliffs, crash bikes, drive off edges, and kiss danger and hot women like it was written into his DNA.…