Keanu isn't our modern day action star, and neither is fucking Tom Cruise. They are both our late stage golden age action stars who have managed to hold onto relevancy, unlike Bruce Willis, Arnold, and Stallone. If Reeves showed up in an Expendables movie I would be heavily offended.
John Wick is the only modern movie that has hit the right tempo for an action movie that we haven't seen since the late 90's. Even the 2nd one was brilliant with its action, cinematagrophy. All its really missing is a plethora of one liners, but we all remember "with a fucking pencil".