Review – To Kill a King

When faced with a movie about a subject as morally ambiguous as the English Civil War, the easiest way to figure out who the hero’s going to be is to compare the cast list to the executive producer credits. In this case the good guy is Thomas Fairfax (Dougray Scott), a member of the nobility and rebel leader who managed to disassociate himself with both King Charles I (Rupert Everett) and his former subordinate Oliver Cromwell (Tim Roth). The production is pretty, but the story is no less dull for all the cash lavished upon it. Mildly amusing