A couple of good action beats and half-decent climactic fight don’t alter the impression of “Bionic,” a cheesy Brazilian thriller about the bionic future of sports, and the crime that can be carried out when there are literal super humans among us.

Shrug off the low-stakes involved, try not to notice its too-easy-to-guess “twist” and forget any notion of the moral ambiguity that might have been what this picture is about. It’s slick, but just too dumb to get into.

Jessica Córes is our heroine and narrator, Maria, a long jumper and daughter of a world champion at the sport. When we meet her, she’s half-resigned to being second best to her younger sister (Gabz). She’ll never be as good as Gabi.

But it’s 2035, the “revolution” in sports is that bionics are competing in their own Olympics, and taking all the prize money and endorsements. Gabi lost a leg to cancer and was given a replacement that’s “faster, stronger” and metallic.

As athletes are willing to dive into “the new doping,” injuring themselves to get bionic improvements, that’s been made illegal. But Heitor (Bruno Gagliasso) is trying to do something about that. That’s why his bionic ex-boxer brother visits a safe deposit vault, assembles a bionic arm from a couple of boxes he opens, and raids the vault of diamonds after beating up the banker and a bunch of cops.

They’ll be able to buy black market NIMS chips that will allow athletes to make themselves bionic without permission, “freeing” them. Or so Heitor says.

The boxer brother dies, but Heitor seeks new bionics to help him achieve his aims. Maria gets his attention, and when she has a convenient accident, she takes on a bionic leg that will give her an athletic edge and Heitor an ally in whatever he’s got cooked up.

We and she figure out the obvious when she’s called into service.

“You’re supposed to HELP people, Heitor! Not MURDER them!”

Generic bionic training scenes set up the parameters. You don’t want to exceed “the chip’s capacity.” Sibling rivalry on the track is given a whiz-bang TV coverage holographic element as each outleaps the other.

The production design team gives the film a “Blade Runner” neon holography sheen, entire buildings turned into commercials and animated billboards shimmering on the rainy streets.

But the capers are generic, the stakes low, the characters thinly-developed and the odd cool effect can’t overcome how uninteresting this entire story and those facing off in it are, start to finish.

Rating: TV-MA, violence, sexual situations

Cast:Jessica Córes, Gabz, Bruno Gagliasso and Christian Malheiros

Credits: Directed by Afonso Poyart, scripted by Josefina Trotta. A Netflix release

Running time: 1:50