“The Shift” (* out of four) was a dizzyingly awful psychodrama about a man (Kristoffer Polaha) who meets a stranger (Neal McDonough) who prompts him into another dystopian world in which reality is fantasy and vice-versa and he must escape this to reconnect with his wife (Elizabeth Tabish) while other various strangers (Sean Astin, Emily Rose, and others) attempt to intercede. Bewildering and incomprehensible jumble rehashes elements from “The Matrix” and other sci/fi classics from over 25 years ago! And it’s cheesy and overlong to boot. It’s clunkers like this that resulted in the down “shift” in McDonough and Astin’s careers.