Again Cobb is being offered a shot at reclamation. One final task could give him his life back yet just in the event that he can achieve the unthinkable.
Invention runs lower once we're on those snowy slopes, and the hard narrative punch keeps disintegrating into a floating cloud of pixels. But what a display they make.
Even as you tick off the film's overload of references, though -- a Matrix here, a James Bond there -- the amazing effects and Cobb's quest carry you along.
