One reason that funny filmmakers obsesses about “pacing” is their knowledge that, slow-burn comedies aside, speed overcomes many a sin when it comes to generating laughs.

You never go far wrong, comically, when everything in your play/movie/sitcom happens at a sprint.

The basic ingredients to a funny film that works are introduced in the Mexican mob farce “Divine Intervention” (” Divina Señal”).

It’s got mobsters who need to disappear when their boss blows himself up and they have enough of his money to “get out” of their line of work. So they dress up as nuns, just like something they saw “in a movie, once.” That movie was “Nuns on the Run.”

The mobsters — “collectors” Chema (veteran funnyman Adrian Uribe of “Overboard”) and Chumo (Guillermo Villegas of “Sin Nombre” and “Where the Tracks End”) — figure only a “miracle” saved them from a bomb blast, and from those hunting them, forcing them to don the habits of Sacred Socorro of the Divine Perpetually Shoeless Heart.

Yeah, they made that up on the fly.

So they must manufacture miracles for others, using old school mob tactics when necessary. Broke guy needs his job back? Maybe his callous boss can be “persuaded.” Teen steals a quinceañera dress? Maybe she and her mom can use a little mob money to make her fifteenth birthday memorable. And so on.

The nuns might be able to hide from their mob boss, but they make no effort to add makeup and high voices to that disguise. Because Chema isn’t putting up with any “transcatholophobic BS.” It’s the 2020s, amigos.

All of which sounds kind of funny — a “Nuns on the Run” for the post-Catholic Church sexual abuse scandals, “woke” enough to make trans-tolerance a punch line.

But aside from a chuckle here and there, this silly, violent grind just doesn’t play. Whatever novelty there is in a “psycho” one-legged mob boss (Jorge Perugorría) who uses a bomb he’s always threatening to set-off as his artificial leg, and then having that bomb go off accidentally, is lost in aimless and uncertain scenes that follow, in sentiment and in slower-than-slow pacing.

Chemo and Chuma are good and somewhat pitiless at their jobs until that fateful day when they survive the psycho/idiot Yuca’s accidental leg-bombing. They steal his briefcase of “collections,” amd figure it’ll take another “sign” from above to even get the damned thing open.

That second “miracle” sends the more superstitious Chumo into a faith spiral. They must seek other “signs,” do good deeds for others who fall in their path.

They’ll lay low as their late boss had an equally psychopathic brother (Perugorría again), with enforcers on the payroll. No, Chema won’t acknowledge his little boy, an aspiring soccer star. But Chuma will see to it that the kid has attention, praise and a father figure who might fall in love with baby-mama Elsa (Gionvanna Romo).

Chema, meanwhile, will take too much interest in the mother (Ana Serradilla) of the quinceañera thief.

Even less interesting complications pile-up even as the hapless mob can’t seem to track down two dudes who put so little effort into their disguises that even 15 year-olds see them as “two guys disguised as nuns.” So that nun hideout gag is quickly introduced and just as quickly abandoned.

Everything that takes away that “Some Like it Hot” on the lam urgency deflates this would-be-balloon of a comedy.

Funny lines wither on the vine, amusing scenes and sequences die of loneliness.

More could have been made of the mob men being “good Catholics,” with comic guilt added on. More could have been done with the nun disguise.

The “miracles” are so labored they become convoluted. The mob bosses are too comical to fear. And everything, much of it pointlessly over-complicated, just lumbers by like a comic catterpilar that can’t get out of its own way.

The only “intervention” the viewer prays for is that the filmmakers take pity and put this strained comedy and us out of our misery.

Rating: unrated, violence, profanity, innuendo

Cast: Adrian Uribe, Guillermo Villegas, Gionvanna Romo, Ana Serradilla, Enoc Leaño and Jorge Perugorría

Credits: Directed by Pitipol Ybarra, scripted by Santiago Garcia Galvan, Emiliano Mansilla, Fernando Perez Gavilan and Pitipol Ybarra. A Sony Pictures International release on Amazon Prime.

Running time: 1:41