I had to answer another review here because he completely lost the point of the movie.
It “changed” halfway through, not because the movie got “lost” but because the main character was having a moral crisis over the fact that he was only doing the “good deed” to absolve himself of the guilt for taking the money from the mother, who died for it & gave it to him in exchange for his promise to keep her son safe. When his dog dies and he realized how much harder the task was than he realized, he struggles between wanting to quit and guilt for knowing he has to keep the money to save his farm.
Veteran money or not, it’s a big penny to run a farm and he wasn’t able to while caring for a wife dying of cancer plus he stated that the medical bills for HER buried him. In the US, how can anyone find it far fetched that people drown in medical costs daily, which aren’t just doctors and prescriptions.
Buying a new car would’ve blown most of the cash, as each pile is only $10k and probably got them caught, although it was my first thought, too: the bullet riddled truck isn’t the safest getaway car.
The burning of the money was symbolic of the moment he finally crossed over to the point of doing the deed for the right reasons.
Of course Liam wasn’t playing a 49/50 year old father in this film so his action scenes shouldn’t have been the same, if you want to talk about believable or realistic.
There were many symbolic scenes in this movie that really made it an excellent film. Handing the medal back was my favorite one.
You’ll need a lot more insight to pull this movie down. It didn’t lose my attention for a single minute.