Director James Keach's movie is so annoyingly dipsy-doodle that TV veteran Bilson, trying hard to look haunted and angsty, is boxed in.
– Joe Neumaier,
New York Daily News,
3 Feb 2011
rotten:
More often than not, I felt suffocated by the gaseous sentimentality and lightheadedness of a story that drops in subplots that it can't begin to develop.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
3 Feb 2011
rotten:
With "Waiting for Forever," an insipid contemporary fairy tale about a lovestruck young vagabond shadowing a childhood sweetheart he can't bring himself to approach, we get stalking, juggling and cancer. Happy Valentine's Day!
– Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb 2011
rotten:
A drippy romance that makes Nicholas Sparks look like Leo Tolstoy.
– Kyle Smith,
New York Post,
4 Feb 2011
rotten:
"Waiting for Forever" evidently is an attempt to portray love as purest when expressed by those who are most innocent, untainted by the ugliness of the real world. But it misses the mark completely, coming off instead as creepy.