Fairfax's wife is played by Olivia Williams, and is probably the weakest character of them all. Maybe if her own conflict between the love of her husband and her love of her monarchist father had been explored a bit more fully her character would have been a bit more sympathetic.

There were a few historic quibbles I had with the film. As I mentioned, the Puritans are shown as rather evil people, diabolical in their planning, almost Machiavellian. Historically, there were dissenters on both sides of the conflict, and while Puritans certainly were in charge of the rebel forces, their intentions were not as malicious as are portrayed in the film — in fact, some turned on Cromwell when his own methods proved repugnant to him.

The first scene also contains a bit of a laugh — Cromwell is attacked by a monarchist, and Fairfax fires his pistol from a good distance and manages to hit the assassin's hand, knocking the dirk out of his grasp. With 17th century technology, Fairfax was lucky to have even hit the assassin — pistols were notoriously inaccurate, and he had as good a chance of hitting Cromwell in the head as he did hitting the intended target.

One of the things I enjoy about DVDs is the bonus material, and the packaging on this one advertises that it "includes a featurette and special features." All I found on the DVD I received were the movie itself and the trailer, so unfortunately I cannot attest to the content of any of those special features. That said, To Kill A King is a decent historical movie, and while maybe not worth a purchase is well worth renting. Cromwell, it isn't.