OMG there are some real LOLs packed into the Liam Neeson action sequel, “Ice Road: Vengeance.” Sadly enough, there aren’t many of them that are intentional.

It’s implausible but far from impossible to believe the sight of gaunt, weathered 70something Neeson free-climbing The Needles in South Dakota. He bellows at the gods — or Tom Cruise — when he summits.

How’d he master that skill and stay in shape for it doing all that driving?

Mike, our “Ice Road” hero, is hellbent on remaking the long-haul truck driver image, one movie at a time. They’re not all pill-popping, sleep-deprived road hogs and most-likely-suspects in most serial killer cases.

In “Vengeance,” Mike’s kidnapped on his way to spread his climber/Air Force sergeant brother’s ashes on Mount Everest. That brother recites in voice-over his final wishes in a letter he Mike left before deployment from Minot, N.D. to Iraq.

Hilariously, the dope mispronounces the name of his base town. It’s “MY-not,” ya silly micks. Not “ME-not.”

Actually, that’s on writer (“Armageddon,” “Die Hard with a Vengeance”) turned “Ice Road” writer-director Jonathan Hensleigh. Who’d expect a Belgian actor (Marcus Thomas) to know Northern Plains pronunciations?

Hensleigh probably didn’t set out to make an outlandish, plot-holes-you-could-drive-a-semi-through sequel. Then again, the original film wasn’t exactly “Wages of Fear.”

Mike’s trek to Everest is interrupted when he and his “half-Sherpa” guide Dhani (Fan Bingbing of “Iron Man 3” and “The 355”) are waylaid by a black-clothed hit team who hijack their Kiwi Express bus to the base camp.

The grizzled New Zealand bus driver Spike (Geoff Morrell) has just enough time to bond with his fellow “asphalt jockey” when the bus is taken — in broad daylight, in the middle of Kathmandu– and Mike and ex-military Buddhist Dhani have to figure out a way out of their jam.

“In Nepal, kidnappers leave no witnesses.”

There are Americans — a professor/NGO aid worker (Bernard Curry) and his inattentive daughter Starr (Grace O’Sullivan). And there’s a local. Vijay (Saksham Sharma) is the son of a landowner who has refused to sell out and allow a predatory developer (Mahesh Jadu) to dam their village’s river and bury all their property under water.

Yeah, this all about getting to Vijay.

Foiling the hijackers (Amelia Bishop plays the petite, bob-cut French killing machine) only puts Vijay into the hands of murderously corrupt cops led by Capt. Shankar (Monish Anand). Crossing them and the “Kathmandu Mafia” is “poking the dragon,” high-mileage Mike is warned.

“I’ve poked one or two before, trust me,” he purrs.

Chase after impossible chase, crashes that don’t end their quest, shootouts where everybody does a lot of missing — unless Mike picks up a pistol — insanely difficult on-the-road repairs and at least one trap we have no idea how the passengers and bus driver escape from unfold along this stunningly scenic, more-harrowing than it plays here “Road to the Sky” highway through the Annapurna Highlands.

A few of the action beats play — brawls and the like. Many don’t.

The repairs are pie-in-the-Himalayan sky absurd, a couple of get-aways are too implausible to even be entertainingly silly and the victims die off in the most utterly predictable order.

But that chiseled-out-of-Irish-stone Neeson always gives his all and delivers fair value, even if the movie that surrounds him isn’t all that.

Rating: TV-14, violence and lots of it

Cast: Liam Neeson, Fan Binging, Grace O’Sullivan, Saksham Sharma, Geoff Morrell, Amelia Bishop and Mahesh Jadu.

Credits: Scripted and directed by Jonathan Hensleigh. A Vertical release on Netflix.

Running time: 1:52