LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Sony Pictures' action film "The Equalizer 3" took the top spot at the North American box office with an estimated three-day cume of 34.5 million U.S. dollars on its opening weekend, showed figures from the measurement firm Comscore on Sunday.

The film is the final installment of The Equalizer trilogy.

Directed by Antoine Fuqua, the film stars Denzel Washington as a retired government assassin. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses.

"The Equalizer 3" holds an approval rating of 76 percent based on 95 reviews to date on the review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes. It earned a glowing "A" on an "A+" to "F" scale from audiences polled by the market research firm CinemaScore.

The film also took in 26.1 million dollars overseas for a global total of 60.6 million dollars through Sunday.

Warner Bros. Pictures' fantasy comedy "Barbie" came in second with 10.6 million dollars on its seventh weekend, pushing its North American cume to 609.5 million dollars.