I agree with your comment. The video was quite dissapointing, though I preferred it a lot more to "Once". I really liked the bathtub and outside scene's, the rest seemed quite repetitive.
I thought they weren't releasing this quite yet, but I suppose with the sudden bombing of "Once" out of the charts, they're trying to press ahead with this.
Even though the video wasn't amazing, it didn't detract from the fact that the song is still very powerful.