“Dark Asset” is another “chip in his brain” supersoldier/super-agent “gone rogue” thriller — yeah, that’s pretty much a genre now — a movie that goes from bad to exponentially worse by giving itself over to what is passed-off as an all back-story, over-sharing bar-pickup conversation.

“So when I was escaping the doctor and his faciliity, but before I made it to the basement mainframe, I stumbled across something,” our anti-hero (Byron Mann) tells the vivacious blonde (Helena Mattsson) he’s hitting on. She is…all ears?

Yeah, some guys need to lead with “I have a Lamborghini in the parking lot.”

Much of this thriller, which opens with a generic “demonstration” of this “ex special forces” “guinea pig” that goes wrong (also “generic”), is back-filling back-story around that dull and perfunctory first act shoot-out.

Writer-director Michael Winnick stuffs all the back-story, back-filling and “twists” he can into the movie via the a momentum-killing monologue.

Such anecdotes can sparkle, sizzle, amuse and enthrall. Think of the “Your father’s watch” monologue from Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction.” Here, it’s just lazy, inert, a flat way of shoving a lot of faux complexity into a crap, formula thriller.

Casting Robert Patrick as the evil scientist behind this “microc chip super spy” program doesn’t show much effort. Naming his character Dr. Cain is downright lazy.

Mann an be an interesting actor (“The Big Short”) and is competent in the combat moments. He’s just monotonous background noise in this role.

The fact that “Dark Asset” is unsurprising and bad is itself unsurprising. With stinkers like “Deuces,” Malicious” and a Steven Seagal atrocity titled “Code of Honor” on his resume, “unsurprising” and “bad” are pretty much Michael Winnick’s brand.

Rating: R, violence

Cast: Byron Mann, Helena Mattsson, Shani Rigsbee, Sabina Gadecki, Marc Winnick and Robert Patrick.

Credits: Scripted and directed by Michael Winnick. A Saban release.

Running time: 1:31