Contemporary corporate Hollywood is often referred to as a 'self-aware cinema of spectacle'. How are spectacles featured in action blockbusters, a genre that relies heavily upon star presence and global accessibility? How do spectacular images, paired with mythical narrative, mobilize new relations of time and space in a non-Western urban setting? This talk looks into the built-in pleasures promised by the thematic and stylistic elements in the family action genre. Using Jackie Chan's The Karate Kid (2010) as an example, the talk seeks to address the complicity between film form, style, and the motivational ideology as capital institutionalizes its cultural forms across the globe.