11 Sci-Fi Movies That Got Science Completely Wrong

The Matrix carved a strange niche for itself when it perfectly fused martial arts with sci-fi, and it certainly paid off for the Wachowskis, the movie's writer/directors.

The Matrix's premise is legendary: what if your entire life is just a well-constructed lie?

In the distant future, the world is dominated by a war between humans and machines, and humans are kept in stasis pods wired into the Matrix, an elaborate simulation of the world as we know it. The movie's reasoning for this is that the machines are harvesting the humans - using them as batteries to further their own vague and probably nefarious ends.

But the issue with that is that humans make awful batteries. We barely produce any heat or electricity, and the amount of energy that the machines would have to expend to keep the humans alive and successfully wired into the Matrix would far outweigh any potential benefit.

This one is especially ridiculous when you consider that the machines, being man-made, would have known this before ever hatching their strange, inefficient plan.