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Query: English history drama has good cast but feels short & incomplete

This film is the story (and some side story) about Oliver Cromwell's overthrow of King Charles in England. The cast does a solid job with the weak screenplay they are given, as the character development is limited in this overly short historical drama. This works more as a TV movie, and could have been made into a miniseries to provide for more context and greater connection with the characters. This solid cast deserves more room to show their craft... good historical dramas are usually long films because you need more time to help viewers gain an emotional engagement with the main characters and an understanding of the times in which the story occurs. The one historical lesson from this film that I found was that those who overthrow tyrants will often display the same tyrannical tendencies that they fought against. Historical themes do repeat!