How can I launch keytool.exe through a batch script?

Question

For various reasons, I want to make a batch script that can launch keytool.exe from either JRE or JDK. I thought this would be rather simple, but it has proven to be rather difficult. Here are some of the methods I have used, but none of which work:

"keytool.exe"

cd "keytool.exe"

start "keytool.exe"

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_141\bin\keytool.exe"

"Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_141\bin\keytool.exe"

".\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_141\bin\keytool.exe"

%SYSTEMROOT%\Windows\System32\cmd.exe "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_141\bin\keytool.exe"

(Note: Based on the scripts content is where I placed it, I am aware of how to properly place the script accordingly...)

There are several others I used, but to avoid clutter I did not list them. I'm pretty stumped on why this isn't working, I have made many many batch script launchers for a wide array of programs. Is this possible? Even creating a shortcut does nothing. I assumed the shortcut wouldn't work but thought it was worth a shot anyways.