Ah ... no! Mick Taylor remaining free is not bad writing and he is certainly never portrayed as being either smart or invincible; quite the opposite in fact. He's actually shown to be a bit dense, to make mistakes, and in every portrayal so far there's at least one point when he's down for the count. No ... the problem here is you and your comprehension level; clearly you're ignorant about Australia...
Go and have a read about Malcolm Naden; an example of a real life fugitive who is merely one of the many that exist. Unlike Mick Taylor - who the cops aren't sure even actually exists - Naden was a known fugitive who was wanted for murder and other serious crimes. He managed to stay on the run for almost 7 years in the Australian outback; despite a huge, ongoing police manhunt. At one point the cops got within, they estimate, about 20 metres of him but he managed to shoot one of the officers and escape.
Ivan Milat, the Backpacker Murderer, killed at least 7 people (police believe there were more), 5 of which were backpackers. At one stage he tried to tie up British backpacker Paul Onions - who had been picked up by Milat while hitchhiking - and even shot a gun at him as he escaped. Onions reported the incident to the police but they did nothing until after some bodies were found in the Belanglo State Forest. The point being that if Ivan Milat had disposed of the bodies, or at least kept them hidden - the way Mick Taylor does - then the police would not have looked for him, even after he attempted to catch someone and shot a gun at them. Furthermore, after the bodies were found in the Belanglo State Forest it was believed then, and is still believed by many now, that there was more than one person involved in committing the murders. So ... presenting the idea that there is an unknown serial killer in the Australian outback - one who isn't being looked for by police, even after someone has reported him - is not bad writing, it's something that actually happened in real life and could even be happening right now; if Milat had accomplices then they are still free and no one is looking for them...
Those two examples - and there are many more - coupled with the fact that there are more than 100 ghost towns in outback Australia, means that it is easily believable that Mick Taylor is able to remain free and isn't even being looked for. We know he travels widely - from the Northern Territory, to South Australia, to Western Australia, and possibly the Eastern States - and all he has to do is avoid going to Wolf Creek for a while. Given that the cops don't have any direct evidence that he actually exists, they aren't going to leave someone stationed at Wolf Creek permanently; especially at night.
Unless you go there, and actually travel around in the outback, it's very difficult to imagine how gigantic and empty Australia actually is, or the ease with which someone can remain hidden out there. Not to mention the fact that, as we are told in the movie, every year a number of people go missing in Australia; never to be seen again...
We're from the planet Duplon. We are here to destroy you.
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