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He went to great lengths to be able to murder someone without getting caught by the psychic things. The movie establishes that they only operate within a certain relatively small geographic range.
I would have to watch it again to state with certainty my case against the ending so there may have been more detail than this but if Max Von Sydow had simply driven the psychic's mom 50 miles out of town and then killed her it could have been done with simple old-fashioned impunity.
That may not be quite right but I remember that my complaint was that the entire movie ending up being a Rube Goldberg device when a very simple alternative was available. In certain types of movies I go along with that but this one was trying hard to be smart in so many other ways and it bothered me.
On War of the Worlds, yes, for me it crossed some line of schmaltz and, to me, betrayed the tone of what had come before. But yes, there were other big logic flaws and they will always exist in something remotely true to the book, but I'd still love to see one set in Victorian England so I could ignore them more easily.
But that was something that bothered me (and it certainly is subjective) from a story perspective. The son should have died or been left missing.
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