I do not doubt that Taken is a fairly good movie but just looking at the number of weeks the top ten have been on the list seems to point to something unusual happening in its case. Some movies do that because people see them multiple times on the big screen, but I do not believe that is the case here. Others sustain on the list because there is a dearth of good movies, and that might have something to do with this case, though there are a lot of post Oscar second run movies that came and went quickly that were probably better films in many ways, so I would be skeptical of this factoring in too highly. It's an action movie, which tend to make a big splash then wane, with one lead who is older, who is also not someone who tends to carry a film on his own. I'm not seeing a string of factors to explain why this movie has hung on so long and done as well as it has.
