Ebert wrote that Pete Postlethwaite and Miriam Margolyes were `` the only actors in the film who seem completely at home '' and said `` In one grand but doomed gesture , writer-director Baz Luhrmann has made a film that ( a ) will dismay any lover of Shakespeare , and ( b ) bore anyone lured into the theater by promise of gang wars , MTV-style . '' Ebert wrote that Pete Postlethwaite and Miriam Margolyes were `` the only actors in the film who seem completely at home '' and said , `` In one grand but doomed gesture , writer-director Baz Luhrmann has made a film that ( a ) will dismay any lover of Shakespeare , and ( b ) bore anyone lured into the theater by promise of gang wars , MTV-style . ''