The movie is set in a future where part of California and Oregon have become a "free state", and where the main character is a former soldier who has an AI named Clyde he can plug into his brain, but boil it down to its basic story elements, and it's more like an old noir. Think of a film about a near-broke private eye being hired by some poor, defenseless woman to protect her from her big, bad ex, only the situation turns out to be nothing like that at all. That's basically the movie.
There's some other bits. Dylan's ex-girlfriend lives in the area and is dating a local cop, sorry peace officer. The client's ex-husband has some idea going that seems to involve getting the locals addicted to chewing on a root that freaks them out. Clyde seems to be getting increasingly opinionated about Dylan's life. But most of the movie is either his client or her ex telling Dylan one thing, then he suspects the other one of lying. Then that one tells him something else, and he decides the first one he talked to is lying, and so on. A lot of time seems to get spent with Dylan driving his motorcycle back and forth between the two homes.
I don't even remember what the ex-husband had going, because I kept checking out during the movie. None of the characters or their actors made much of an impression. But at least it was only 80 minutes, so it was over quickly.
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