[jaredklewis]

I love everything about The Matrix, except that the core premise makes no sense. Humans are not an energy source; at best we (very inefficiently) transform energy from one form to another.

If we “scorched the sky,” humans would be at least as screwed as the robots, unless we’re getting all our energy (and tons more since we’d have to move all agriculture indoors) from nuclear or such, but in that case, what on earth would the robots need us for? Wouldn’t they just start running nuclear plants? Seems a lot simpler than running the matrix.

Feels like such a sloppy plot hole for an otherwise brilliantly entertaining film.

[harperlee]

Originally humans were used as computers, not energy source, which made more sense. Some brilliant mind changed it at some point during production.

[ddalex]

If they were used as super efficient neural nets that compute by dreaming, it would have been amazing