For a hand and a foot, . . . they are past compare

The Verona project, part XVIII, Romeo Must Die

Who (how old), when, how long? Jet Li (36) and Aaliyah (20), 2000, 2hrs.

What sort of R&J? Did you not read the previous answer?

Seriocomic scale for first scene? Some humor seems inevitable in martial arts fights, but still, 8 or so.

"Wherefore": do the filmmakers know what it means? Not applicable.

Carrion flies? NA.

Body count? Hard to correlate all the characters, but certainly R&J (Han and Trish) survive; Han's mother is dead long before the action begins; Mac, who's as close as there is to a Paris--an ally of Trish's father and her unwelcome suitor--is snuffed, but by Trish, not Han; Po, Han's brother and roughly a Mercutio figure, is killed under mysterious circumstances (his father's call, it is ultimately revealed); and Colin, Trish's kinsman (brother), is killed in apparent retaliation for Po's death, but ultimately we learn that it was his people who did him in. So call the body count per the play's central figures 4, I guess, but all in un-Shakespearean circumstances--everybody but the young lovers.

What (else) is missing? It's another very rough approximation of R&J, so the question doesn't really apply.

What (else) is changed? Ditto.

What (else) is odd? What is spectacular is some of the fight sequences, natch, like when Han uses Trish's body to parry as attack by a female would-be assassin, since it's against his principles to "hit a girl"; or when he uses a firehose (operative and then not) against a horde of unfriendlies; or . . . well, you get the idea.

End-of-the-play exposition? Not all at once, but yeah, we get a lot of talking to clear up all the mysteries that aren't really all that mysterious.