I laughed more than once at the jaunty Taiwanese action farce “Breaking and Re-Entering.”

It’s a jokey, violent and lighthearted collection of heist movie cliches rendered in caper comedy form.

Certainly it’s an overreach when a character in this tale of robbers, hired to rob a shady, crypto-friendly bank’s vaulted “charity” cash, intones, “When a cliche is well executed, it becomes a classic.”

But funny is funny, and the jokes — ranging from “disguise” gags (involving actors swapping voices in their new guise) to a homoerotic riff and slo-mo “take a bullet for you, bro” gag — land about half the time.

“Hey Siri, what does ‘I need him alive’ mean in Chinese?”

That’s almost as funny in subtitles s it probably is in Guoyo, aka Taiwanese Mandarin.

Bo-lin Chen plays Chang Bo-chun, the leader of the gang, an ex-con who took the rap for tech nerd Kao (Kent Tsai), master-of-disguise Uncle Bin (Frederick Ming Zhong Lee) and Mr. Brooding Muscle (J.C. Lin).

They’ve just ripped-off this inherited-a-bank nepo baby Chen Hai-jui (Kang Ren-wu), who’s not the crypto wizard/bank-charity philanthropist he seems. He may be all over TV, pitching suckers with “Do you want to get rich now, or die broke forever?” But he’s taking deadly shortcuts to get there himself.

No sooner have they emptied the vault and timed their tunnel-detonation blast to the arrival of New Year’s Eve fireworks than Bo-chun realizes this was no victimless crime after all. The assistant manager of the bank, Shen Shu-wen (Cecilia Choi) has been set up to take the fall.

Coincidentally, Bo-chun was sweet of Shu-wen, back before he went to jail. There’s nothing for it but for them to sneak the money back in, “breaking and re-entering” as it were.

What’s worse, taking the fall entails silencing Shu-wen. Bo-chun’s got to save her life as well as her reputation. Will the gang go for it? Will she?

It’d be a pretty short action comedy if one and all didn’t.

“Jaunty” here includes stealing that Guy Ritchie “Sherlock Holmes” trick of having Bo-chun wargame out every scenario — from the steps in the heist to simply getting himself or someone else out of a jam — in his head, letting us see how A, B and C would fail, which is why he settled on D.

The fights are violent but jokey, the stunts dangerous but jokey, and writer-director Leo Wang (“Dì jiu fenju”) renders it all in the many shades of “cutesie.”

That works…up to a point. Beyond that point, the action drags and the “cute” in the characters and situations wears off and the jokes and cliches — so many clcihes — wear thin.

Rating: TV-MA, violence, profanity

Cast: Bo-lin Chen, Cecilia Choi, Kent Tsai, J.C. Lin, Kao Ying-Hsuan, Kang Ren-Wu and Frederick Ming Zhong Lee

Credits: Scripted and directed by Ding lin (Leo) Wang, scropted by A Netflix release.

Running time: 1:48