'Prison Break' Star's Forgotten Video Game Sequel Officially Hits Netflix

The Umbrella Corporation has become quite handy at surviving the apocalypse, so picking fights with them probably isn't the smartest thing to do. But Alice doesn't tend to make easy or smart decisions. And, given enough time, you'll find that zombies aren't even the biggest issue anymore.

2002's Resident Evil is officially on Netflix in the wake of the newest outing hitting theaters, in the form of Resident Evil: Afterlife, which joined the service in the United States on September 1 alongside Resident Evil: Extinction and Resident Evil: Retribution, so you've got plenty of Umbrella Corporation activity to get through the weekend.

Zach Cregger's (Weapons) brand-new Resident Evil reboot opened in theaters on September 18, bringing Capcom's survival-horror franchise back to the big screen, so Netflix has become a pretty convenient place to revisit the previous movie era while the new incarnation starts from scratch. Afterlife finds Alice (Milla Jovovich) still hunting the Umbrella Corporation in a world thoroughly overrun by the T-virus. Her search for other survivors — including Landman's Ali Larter and Prison Break's Wentworth Miller — eventually takes her to Los Angeles and a supposedly safe haven known as Arcadia. Ha! As if anywhere is safe.

The cast also features Shawn Roberts (Edge of Darkness) as Albert Wesker, Kim Coates (Sons of Anarchy) as Bennett, Boris Kodjoe (Station 19) as Luther West, Spencer Locke (Insidious: The Last Key) as K-Mart, and Sergio Peris-Mencheta (Rambo: Last Blood) as Angel Ortiz.

Is 'Resident Evil: Afterlife' Worth Watching?

Resident Evil: Afterlife currently sits at just 21% on Rotten Tomatoes from 107 reviews, with its audience score faring somewhat better at 48%. The consensus is fairly damning too, saying that the whole thing was unnecessary and that it was already leaning much further into action spectacle than straightforward survival horror. Audiences still turned up, though. Afterlife earned $60.1 million domestically, and that number has suddenly become relevant again for an interesting reason: Until this weekend, it represented the franchise's biggest North American haul. Cregger's new Resident Evil has just opened to $60 million and is expected to pass Afterlife almost immediately, finally threatening a record the Jovovich movie has held for 16 years.

Resident Evil: Afterlife is streaming now on Netflix in the United States.