Once again, Hollywood has succeeded in rehashing old ideas for people's cash rather than their enjoyment.

The typical Hollywood mindset that a sequel is just as good as an original often teaches the moviegoing public otherwise. The same rings true when a regurgitated idea under another name is brought to the screen.

Hollywood's latest regurgitated idea is Freejack, a love story/mystery/sci-fi-type flick filled with uninspiring movie basics like car chases and gunplay.

Freejack takes place mostly in that fascinating time period -- the future.

Unfortunately, the freejack future lacks happy thoughts of peace and goodwill. Instead, it is a world drastically divided by the "haves" and the "have-nots," minus a middle class and an ozone layer.

Alex Furlong (Emilio Estevez) is zapped from the present into this Mad Max-meets-Soylent Green setting where his mind is to be removed and his body turned into a chassis for the mind of a not-quite-dead someone.

In Vacendak's (Mick Jagger) attempt to deliver Furlong's brainless body to a paying, bodiless customer, something goes awry and Furlong escapes with a full checklist of organs.

Furlong, now labeled a freejack, begins his frantic search to find anyone who can help transport him from the year 2009 back to the past in 1991.

And now the average plot starts its weak and predictable development.

We have all seen it before -- the hero faces extreme odds in staying alive and finding the reason for his transportation to the future. Freejack might as well be called Total Recall II: This Time It's Pathetic.

The clich is wrapped up with a journey into the mind which includes images flying at the viewer in a 2001/Fantastic Voyage-like montage.

The year 2009 Freejack creates is a time without imagination, creativity or hope. These characteristics carry into the screenplay of Freejack itself.

Casting was also uninspired. By choosing a famous name from the music genre and finding a proven likeable face for a redone role, casting took the easy way out in the pursuit for audience cash flow.

Jagger is quite capable of looking like a villain with his leathery face, which competes with Keith Richards' for the worst-looking in show biz. However, he's much less skilled at acting like one. He should keep his face on the radio and away from large movie screens.

With his devilish grin and masterful weapon-firing straight out of Young Guns, it is obvious why Estevez was cast as this gunslinging, on-the-run character. Although his girlfriend towers above him and never ages during an 18-year span, Estevez delivers a believable performance.

The choice of Freejack's creators to not use intriguing special effects and images from beginning to end leaves the moviegoer with boring, present-day devices like car chases and ordinary guns, instead of the possibly limitless visions that could accompany the future backdrop.

So what does this mean? If you are the type who enjoys the same meal each day, Freejack is a good $5.25 investment. Otherwise, wait for the video.