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Keanu Reeves wasn’t anyone’s first choice for Neo in the Wachowski Siblings’ The Matrix. Reports vary but everyone from Brad Pitt and Val Kilmer to Tom Cruise and Johnny Depp were reportedly in the running for the role of Neo. In hindsight, the choice of Reeves seems obvious. What so many people mistook as an idiot’s temperament in his youth, when he was starring in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, was an expertise in conveying inner peace, whether it’s intact or under attack. The Matrix presented a hero who had to come to vaguely spiritual inner realizations before he could become Computer Jesus, and Reeves has always had the uncanny ability to seem like he’s at once of this world and in touch with the metaphysical. The curtness of Neo’s demeanor on the page and Reeves’ oft-whispered vocal tone work melodiously together.
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He's always been a great physical actor. Unfortunately, due to the nature of such quick edits and shaky cam implementations in poorer action movies, that physicality's able to be replicated with stunt doubles.
Always enjoyed his movies... So there :)