Slick, sex-uped and maddeningly-shallow, “The Courier” is another variation on the “get rich quick via money-laundering” formula based on real events that roiled Europe and Spain in the early 2000s.

We learn precious little about the backers, reasons (real estate hustles, much of it financed by China) and economic perils of off-the-books cash-shuffling, because Daniel Calparsoso’s film — “The Warning” was his — is always in a mad rush to take us to the next night of clubbing with cocaine, the next posh sports car roll up (Porshes, Audis and AMGs) or the next sexual romp involving our anti-hero, Iván Márquez (Arón Piper), just another striver from Vallecas, a lowly parking valet who angles his way into the world of high rollers.

“El Correo/The Courier” tracks Iván’s abrupt introduction to this world and sudden rise in it without really getting into “details.”

The story is framed, as such tales inevitably are, within his downfall — showing up in a shipping container full of Euros.

Fast motion travel montages cover a lot of ground in those sports cars. And as he remembers his origins, we see Iván take up with the wife of one “financier (Laura Sepul) and the daughter (María Pedraza) of another (Spanish star Luis Tosar), and take on a bit of muscle (Nourdin Batan) as a “partner,” Piper voice-over narrates his character’s every inane thought.

“You know that one moment in life that can change everything…I was never the brightest kid in class” carries no more meaning in Spanish than it does dubbed into English.

The movie’s history, chronicling rapid development in the Spain of the 2000s, ending with Spain slumping back into the 20% unemployment that predated this “boom,” is disengenuous at best and barely sketched-in, mainly over the closing credits.

The settings have the sheen of affluence, the hedonistic sex of the very expensive underwear set and the world depicted is barely shown in a surface gloss. We know as little about our “forget his family/neglect his failed but righeous father” anti-hero at the end as we did at the beginning.

The more voice-over narration that winds through the soundtrack, the more I hated this facile, lazy exercise in excess.

Rating: TV-MA, some violence, sex, drugs, nudity, profanity

Cast: Arón Piper, María Pedraza, Laura Sepul, Nourdin Batan and Luis Tosar

Credits: Directed by Daniel Calparsoro, scripted by Patxi Amezcua and Alejo Flah. A Universal release on Netflix.

Running time: 1:39