Seeking revenge, Guido Fawkes, a courageous and smart mercenary, who during the war against Spain lost his wife and father, so he makes his mind to kill King James I, the thing that challenges him.
The plot came to seem more and more naive; I'm not sure if it's the enterprise that was dim and doomed, or the fact that it was being vocalised by a bunch of mucked-up Burberry models.
Perhaps the greatest testament to the writing and direction is that Liv Tyler, not the first actress who springs to mind when one thinks of the early-17th-century Midlands, didn't look too out of place.
