The “Lost Bullet” cops and smugglers franchise, France’s answer to “The Fast and the Furious” films, goes out with fireworks — literally — with “Last Bullet,” a furious and somewhat futile attempt to wrap up all the complications and traffic pileups of the first two films of this trilogy.

It’s hard to keep all the compromised cops, dirty cops, love interests, villains and intrepid survivors of “The Brigade” that set out to crack a Spain-to-France “Go Fast” bikes smuggling ring straight. So in the name of all that’s holy, don’t skip the “summary” Netflix offers as a teaser to this big budget/big effects/big stunts finale.

The first film had an “Oh hell YEAH” attitude — all stunts and chases and fights and action. The second film set out to top the first, furthering the story of an undercover operation gone awry. Piling on plot and killing off characters didn’t do it any favors, but DAMN those chases/that action.

For “Last Bullet,” director and co-writer Guillaume Pierret delivers some of the most expensive and spectacular stunts in recent French film history, which occur in three epic chases involving cars, motorcycles, a helicopter,a semi, assorted Renaults, Peugeots and Mercedes, an armed towtruck and a Brabus customized armor-plated G-wagon.

But the best sequence starts with a three-way throw-down on a Montpellier transit tram.

Our crooked cop-turned-cop killer on the lam Areski (Nicolas Duvauchelle) opens the picture with a couple of hair-raising escapes from assassination in the forests of Germany. Give this guy a motorbike and he’s as good as gone. Give him a chance in a fight and you’re as good as dead.

He flees back to France with ill-gotten cash.

Crooked narcotics bureau honcho Resz (Gérard Lanvin) swaps the captured Alvaro (Diego Martín) for the thief coerced into being a mole inside the smugglers’ gang Lino (Alban Lenoir), who has been imprisoned in Spain.

He lets Lino go? Go figure. This sort of thing happens a lot in this sequel.

Resz keeps his battle scarred dirty cop/fixer Yuri (Quentin D’Hainaut) around to tidy up messes involving Lino, Areski and that bag Areski has with him.

That’s what puts Lino, Areski and Yuri together on that tram. Their throw-down is a fight for the ages, with each using the other two in tag team configuration, or as a weapon hurled against each other.

And that’s before the first big chase, with Areski fleeing on a violently-acquired cop motorcycle and Lino in hot pursuit in a souped-up Alpine through the streets and parks of Monpellier.

Lino gets that Alpine from car customizing whiz Sarah (Julie Tedesco), who ends up providing his lady cop crush Julie (Stéfi Celma) with that G-wagon and himself with an armed-and-dangerous tow truck for the Big Finish.

It takes a bit to recall who is connected to whom, which cops are worth rooting for and which are diabolical.

Some plot points are action cliches — the too-compliant “car” supplier, booby-traps, stashes of cash and the sniveling minion (Charles Morillon) who helps Resz keeps his various criminal plans together.

All the clumsy plot contrivances and laugh-out-loud “No they DIDN’T” crashes and blasts collide in ways that sometimes cancel each other out. It’s more a (somewhat) satisfying “finale” than a logical one. Literally every time bad guys leave others to “finish the job” on this or that character, we know this or that character will amazingly survive it.

But this action climax, silly and over-the-top as it is, is more real stunts and real crashes than your average CGI boosted “Fast/Furious” film. if you’re into the genre and haven’t seen these “Bullets,” by all means do. Just watch them in order because otherwise, “Balle perdue 3” will have you scratching your head between whoops and hollers.

Rating: TV-MA, lots of violence, smoking, profanity

Cast: Alban Lenoir, Stéfi Celma, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Pascale Arbillot, Quentin D’Hainaut, Anne Serra and Gérard Lanvin

Credits: Directed by Guillaume Pierret, scripted by Caryl Ferey and Guillaume Pierret. A Netflix release.

Running time: 1:52