The Shift

The Shift

Kevin travels across worlds to reunite with the love of his life, Molly. When a mysterious individual known only as The Benefactor threatens Kevin’s survival, he fights to return to the world he knows and the woman he loves.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 115 minutes
  • Genre: Fantasy, Thrillers
  • Stars: Sean Astin, Neal McDonough, Elizabeth Tabish, Jason Marsden, Paras Patel, Emily Rose, Nolan North, Kristoffer Polaha, Rose Reid, John Billingsley, Jordan Walker Ross
  • Director: Brock Heasley
 Comments
  • pacmom-82864 - 6 June 2024
    This movie shook me to my core
    This was a great movie because it did just that... it shook my emotions so hard. I found myself literally saying Jesus is amazing out loud in my living room, as I watched towards the end because it was hard to see some of the things that were happening. Not because of violence, but because anyone that has been in a spiritual battle in this world can understand the depth of this movie. It brought to life in such a visual way, what a spiritual battle looks like from an insiders perspective. To me, this isn't just a story of Job, but a story similar to Job. The scriptures the producers chose to use made an impact too because the last one on the screen pulled every single one of my heart strings and I cried, happy and relieved tears, sitting there putting legos together on my card table. This story is about the hope, dedication, commitment someone has with God. Even when God doesn't seem present, He is. He was there the whole time with Kevin, but He knew Kevin would refuse. God needed Kevin to walk through that darkness and to fight so that others would come to know Him through him. The world needs people like that and movies like this. There are many people in the world who battle, that is why God give us armor! This movie is so spiritual in many ways, but regardless of a a persons spiritual path there are always battles that are fought. This story is about a man who struggles, holds on as tight as he can to the promise of God's love and hope, and ends up okay in the end because he never let go of his faith. The absolute best part is that others who saw him and knew him came to know that promise of love and hope too and so therefore, their faith grew. I will say something that is a spoiler, the moment where Kevin was told to chose between Tina or Molly, I talked to the tv like people do at sports game lol. He chose Tina so her and her family could be reunited. When he encountered Molly with her friends, she was doing okay and had moved on. On the screen he was looking at she was upset because of that encounter they had just had, but she had moved on. Kevin knew Molly was okay and that he would be okay also. The important thing for him was to help mend the sadness and brokenness that came from Tina being taken away from her family. That moment, that moment was absolutely beautiful! And to me, that is the representation of God's love. He doesn't want us to suffer. He wants us to be okay and to feel peace and happiness. With God all things are possible, even in a spiritual battle that feels never ending. Again, this movie was hard to watch, but I am thankful I took the time to do so. It really made an impact.
  • dave355 - 18 April 2024
    I must be the target audience
    I'm both a follower of Christ and longtime sci-fi fan (especially hard sci-fi, like Niven & Pournelle, and The Expanse). So science fiction with a Christian backdrop sounds great, to me.

    But The Shift still managed to surprise me. I expected to enjoy it, but I didn't expect such an original plot, and I really didn't expect to be so drawn-in, emotionally.

    Christian sci-fi is an unusual combination, these days. But it needn't be, and it wasn't always. Dante's Inferno was so close to being science fiction, already, that it inspired Niven & Pournelle to write a science fiction book of the same name, set in a modernized version of hell. C. S. Lewis wrote highly aclaimed serious theology, but he also wrote delightful fantasy -- and science fiction.

    These days, it seems that most science fiction writers are encumbered by the prejudice that for a story to be scientific it must NOT be religious. As this movie shows, that's an entirely unnecessary restriction, and a really engrossing science fiction story can be built on a foundation of Christian assumptions.