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Sportsman of the century is a romantic drama about Teake Jongsma, a member of the Northern Dutch province Friesland (Fryslân). The guy is quite good in his department of sports: sitting at a pole. Teake rules this sport for about 60 years and is therefore selected to become sportsman of the century (of Fryslân, that is). The bad thing in his sports is the fact that matches can take up to 250 days. This messes up Teake's personal life, because he (poor) is fighting for one girl with another man (a rich guy named Rintje). I think the brand of sport chosen for this picture is quite original. Juchum ten Haaf is a charming sportsman, sitting high on his pole. These scenes are the cool ones in the movie. The rest (the romantic drama) is quite poor. The story is flat and contains holes, the actions of Rintje are very predictable. It's a pity, because sitting on a pole is very cool in this picture.

If someone tells you the story of National Treasure, I'm sure you'll experience an amount of difficulty controlling your laugh. That's because the story ís ridiculous. The whole movie is ridiculous, actually. Nicolas Cage manages to immediately understand the most difficult signs in his search for this enormous treasure. And that's a good point, because this way the audience doesn't have to do the thinking. Not that anyone successfully could do this thinking...

Anyway, this movie is absurd, it's ridiculous and the story doesn't make any sense at all. Some scenes, like the one in the beginning on one of the poles where Cage and co easily locate a ship that's been lost for thousands of years, make you laugh by it's stupidness. But this is the one movie I like more and more every time I think about it. It's fantastic, just because of this ridiculous story. See for yourself: you'll love it!