A lot of critics will probably hate this movie because of the fact, that it has teen pop star Leif Garrett seeking vengeance of Spaghetti-Western legend actor Lee Van Cleef. Think of it, in modern terms. It's like watching Justin Bieber VS Javier Bardem in a violent revenge western movie. In my opinion, it didn't bug me so much, because I didn't realize who Leif Garrett was, before watching this movie and didn't care. He wasn't that famous and annoying. One thing that is annoying about this film is how nobody can remember what the title of this movie directed by Joseph Manduke was. Some people think the movie is call Vengeance; while others think it calls Bad Azz Muthaz: Kid Vengeance. Its call Kid Vengeance, most of the time. Plus, some people got this 1977 movie mixed up with another movie from 1975. 'Take on Hard Ride' is another Western movie that Jim Brown and Lee Van Cleef was involved. I don't know how America got confused with the title translations. It didn't help that the film is sometimes call 'Take another Hard Ride' in some theater. Some people think this is a prequel or sequel to it, and it's not. It only has a little bit of similarities to that older film. Other people say it's relate to 1975's God's Gun, because it was shot in Israel. There was a brief flourishing during the 1970s that used the Negev desert in Israel as location for the filming of westerns. The film was produced by the cousins Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan known for leaving their crew for days in the harsh environment. It was a miracle that the film was even shot, because some people refused to return to the location after God's Gun. Lee Van Cleef is reunited with then 15-year old Leif Garrett, who also appeared in God's Gun, but this time around, Garrett is not his apprentice, but his sworn adversary. Don't be fooled in whatever this movie is call: the vengeance in this movie might be exacted by a kid, but it's by no means a kiddie movie. This is your typical dark late-era Spaghetti Western, violent and pretty unrelenting, with a fairly high body count. Lee Van Cleef stars as an evil Willy Nelson look alike, headband wearing evil bandit, name McClain who kills the boy's father and rape his mother. He then kidnaps his sister (Glynnis O'Connor) to be sold later as a sex slave. I don't know he know what McClain's gang was supposed to be; it felt like a bunch of white guys trying to act Hispanic or something. Politically correctness was tossed out of the window in this film indeed. Well, Tom (Leif Garrett) starts following the gang through the desert, picking off the bandits one by one, killing them in gruesome fashion, using bow and arrow, rocks, scorpions and snakes. In other words: everything the desert has to offer, can and will be used against them. Still, how the kid gets a snake into the saddlebags or put a scorpion in a guy boot is left to the imagination. The scene where the rocks dropped on his head in slow motion is laughable. On the way, Tom meets a prospector name Isaac (play by ex-football player Jim Brown) who teams up with Tom after his gold has been stolen by the bandits. I really don't know why he was in this film with his limited screen time. It was better, just to cut him from the film. I didn't even think he needed the help of Jim Brown most of the time. It felt like I was watching a weird version of Huckleberry Finn or something. Jim Brown seems so out of place. Van Cleef, Brown and Garrett do their best, but eventually the film looks as cheap as it probably was. It was full of one shot kills, bad dubbing that was out of sync, dead people blinking, scenes that you can't tell if it's night or day, and gunsmoke appears about 5 seconds before you hear a gunshot. The actors look tired. As working conditions must have been very difficult due to the heat of the desert, and in some scenes Van Cleef is visibly suffering from the atrocious heat. The quality of the DVD isn't good. It looks like a bad VHS copy with scratches, and discoloring. There are some good things about the film. I love that the film deals with Tom's coming to age revenge story. There is a pretty good scene in the beginning where Tom's father teach the boy, the different between hunting and killing. I do have to say the rabbit, they hunt do look like it was killed on film. I don't know if it's animal cruelty or not. I have a feeling, somebody probably indeed ate it. I do like Francesco Masi's fine musical score, it fits the cold tale of revenge. I do like the poster to the film with Garrett arching an arrow. Badass. Overall: if you like 1970's western, then you're probably like this. If you just happen to see it on TV or somewhere. You might think it's awful or average. In my opinion, it's rare to see a kid killing evil outlaws in film nowadays, so this movie might be a treat because that taboo.