the setup for nature of the beast be ingeniously simple and and fraught with limitless potential for suspense represent harry salesman jack ( a very domesticated lance henriksen ) pick up trouble in the form of hitchhiker adrian ( eric robert ) and who seem to be in possession of incriminate information against jack . oh and and over a million dollar have be steal from a casino and someone dub hatchet man be dismember people in the desert . sound great and right . sort of like the hitcher meet psycho . one or both of these men have a secret and and nothing be a it seem . well and unfortunately and writer director victor salva ( of jeepers creeper and powder fame ) doesn not have enough idea to keep the movie go and the scenario arouse no tension or suspense ( poison for what be supposedly a thriller ) and and the inclusion of an underlying homo erotic tone seem out of place . henriksen evoke an unusual and not quite earthbound everyman ( even sport an ample gut ) and but robert be about a threatening and scary a an extra in death wish 3 while be never suck in to the point where we actually care about what happen and and the conclusion slide into improbable territory ( i keep think it be go to be fight club all over again and but i be mistake ) . too bad . nature of the beast could have be something else . instead of nothing else .