In movies and television, it is possible to shoot around somebody's feet, or in a door shape at a wall, and create a method of escape.
Unfortunately, as Mythbusters has proven, it requires many, many bullets and a lot of time to do this. With a BFG like a Vulcan gun or large-caliber machine gun, it might be faster; but more likely than not, applying that much stress to the wall would simply [...] [tvtropes.org]