Panned ‘Taken 2’ cleans up at box office

Critics don’t like Taken 2, but Liam Neeson’s action sequel has proved twice the hit among fans as the original movie was.

Taken 2 led the US box office with $50m (€38.5m) over opening weekend — double the haul for Neeson’s Taken, which took in $24.7m in its US debut.

The film, which began rolling out overseas a weekend earlier, added $55m more in about 50 international markets to raise its worldwide total to $117m.