All the SW movies on even years are filler movies. They are like the SW Movie version of the old EU books. For that, I thought Rogue 1 was pretty good... but not special. I wasn't expecting IV, V, or even VI quality. Just wanted a decent movie set in the SW universe.
I liked that it was more actiony and more original. The movie isn't going to have any twists or surprises given where it is placed in the timeline, so I just wanted something that had a good pace, original, and had characters that were real people with arcs.
I got 2/3. The characters weren't dull or flat like the prequels, which is nice, but weren't strong enough to give 3/3.
As for Ep VII I thought it was good, with some flaws, but played extremely safe. My opinion on the the whole newer movies will be heavily contingent on Ep IX. Ep VII was essentially a soft reboot of Ep IV... but if they make IX basically a rewrite of Ep V instead of taking new directions I'll snap my lid.