This faintly airless historical pageant orders the English civil war as a stand-off between Oliver Cromwell's puritanical hard man and Thomas Fairfax's reasoned pragmatist.

Tim Roth and Dougray Scott give robust performances as the allies turned rivals, though any nuance risks being lost amid the blood-and-thunder histrionics so beloved of this genre (choral singing, thud of drum).

There's also a dispiriting voiceover, presumably drafted in to recap the history for anyone dozing at the back.